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[kittydesade]

The future tense form of Tá is beidh. This is pronounced be before pronouns and bay otherwise.
Ní beidh mé anseo. I won't be here.
Beidh Máire anseo. Mary will be here.

Actions which are in progress or underway are referred to by the progressive form of the verb, which has an exact equivalent in English. It consists of tá + doer of action + ag + the form of the verb called the verbal noun:

Tá mé ag obair inniu. I am working today.
Tña siad ag foghlaim Gaeilge. They are learning Irish.

The g of ag is only pronounced before a vowel, so one says a' foghlaim. In the case of the verb to work, the progressive form has a wider use in Irish than in English. Compare the Irish and English versions here.
Tá mé ag obair anseo. I work here.
Tá Máire ag obair in oifig. Mary works in an office.

Replacing tá with an bhfuil? gives a question:
An bhfuil tú ag obair i gCorcaigh?
An bhfuil tú ag foghlaim Gaeilge?

Here are some more examples, including past progressive with bhí (was) and future progressive with beidh (will be):

An bhfuil tú ag imeacht? Are you leaving?
Bhí mé ag dul abhaile. I was going home.
Bhí muid ag ól deoch. We were drinking/having a drink.
An mbeidh tú ag tiomáint abhaile? Will you be driving home?
Beidh muid ag ithe béile. We'll be eating a meal.
Beidh siad ag teacht amárach. They'll be coming tomorrow.


... Why is house buying so stressful? Why? No details on the "I don't want to jinx" this thing, also by way of keeping me from dwelling on the current thing more than I am already, which I am trying hard not to do. The next step is to get an inspector out there while I bang on people's heads to get them to cough up details about the work they're already doing. There, is that cryptic enough for you? And then I get to decide if this is out of my price range or just at the upper edge of do-able. Meanwhile the boy gets to pick the next three houses to see, since I picked the first three. This, in retrospect, was a BAD IDEA. So bad.

No, seriously, I am not allowed to make big responsible adult decisions anymore. I want all the shiny and there are stars in my eyes and dreams in my head. But I have not put my signature on anything nor committed a dime just yet, nor will I, except the required dimes to assess the situation more deeply and properly. Because I am a responsible adult even though I REALLY REALLY WANT THE SHINY.

Oof. Other things. Once Upon a Time has stolen my playbook and I freaking want it back. Right down to the Glaucon option. Admittedly he makes a very wee Glaucon, but that's what he freaking did. I will say, though, it is by far not the worst display of Sorcery I've seen. I will reserve that for throttling Sherlock bloody Holmes and Gatiss for stealing my angst angst brood on a high place thing. That wasn't even the original plot point, that was Sherlock goes and broods on a high place to think because that's what Sorcerers do. Rarr. And on the other hand this means all the Sorcery I have left is Nate's semi-competent flailing, tonight. I can live with that.

Right. I'm going to go off, do my work, try not to have house flail, and talk to the Architect about inspectors and things. And email back the realtor lady and thank her and see if she has answers to those questions we had.

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[kikibug13]

You has a plan. Also ... good grief all the fucking Sorcery. Also, as somebody pointed out, so far three times the season finale is a two-parter arc. So you might not be in a hurry to watch the last ep until this week's?

[kittydesade]

I do has a plan. I also has a serious need for immediate gratification.

SO MUCH SORCERY. GOOD GODS. Aaand. I don't know, I'm not too too fussed so far. It could get messy, though. And on the plus side, at least next week's OUaT seems light on the Sorcery.

[kikibug13]

Sushi for lunch? I might be lucky and grab Thai for dinner after the movie.

*headdesks* So much. I feel. Queasy. I should get myself to run into a different made-up world-- oh THAT is why that's been taking a while. *skips some of the introduction scenes and goes to the easier ones, will return to them later* And yay light on the Sorcery. (Although if it is heavy on Regina being thick...)

[kittydesade]

Beef for lunch, I think. I feel a need for large amounts of beef. Possibly just the need to chew flesh.

You know it's sad and stressful when I'm hiding behind the Sorcery but, yes. And, god. *facepalm* If Regina gets any more... something. I want to bang her and Emma's heads together. Hopefully Emma has half a clue about how dangerous Gold is now.

[kikibug13]

Mmm nom nom nom chewing on flesh. There are times!

*snorts* it just puts things into perspective? Not a very cheerful one, but. I also should let Reid poke at people there after movie, might help. Because blondie. :P

And yeah, Regina... yeah. Emma at least had some concept of what she wanted to be. Even if Gold played her on it, it was still her own choices. Regina... is flailing and it's sad.

[kittydesade]

There. Animal flesh had. House of my dreams possibly no longer for sale, which eliminates a lot of awkwardness but also makes me sad. So. Shuffling that off to one side, leaving it be, next bunch of houses. Also back to I hate this house buying process. Hate. So much.

Gold is definitely the biggest reason I'm... okay, the only reason I'm still watching the show. Just, no one else is that interesting.

[kikibug13]

CHAOS AND DAMNATION stupid house hunting. BUT MAYBE NOT ALL HOPE IS LOST!

Well. Henry does well!

[synecdochic]

Oh, man, the house buying process is stressful just by nature. Persevere! You will find something. Eventually. :)

[kittydesade]

It irks me. It's irksome.

Well, and we'll see what the next three houses look like! And what an inspection pokes out with this first one, and so on. Information! Data data data, I made it out of clay. >.>

[synecdochic]

Hee! If it's any consolation, we toured dozens of houses before even getting to the point of inspection, and as you know, we walked away from the first house we were going to offer on based on the inspection results. It's very rare to have the first house work out.

[kittydesade]

Oh yes. And I went up to talk to my Architect aunt about inspectors she knows and we looked at it, and somehow over the weekend it went from 'For sale' to 'not for sale.' Which makes me sad! But if it's really off the market, it will at least keep me from freaking out over it.

And then, you know, onward to the next one! And the next and the next.

[synecdochic]

There is always another house to look at. *G*

[kittydesade]

No boom today! Boom tomorrow, possibly. Always a boom tomorrow! ;)

[viridian]

Buying a house is a major stress, but it will be worth it once you have your new shiny! And it is doable - I didn't end up with my first-choice house, but my first-choice house had 10000000 things wrong with it and I love the house I ended up with so much more. Try not to let yourself get down if things don't go smoothly on the first try.

Also, what? I keep hearing things about Once Upon A Time; I assume this is a tv show. Explain to me about wee Glaucon!

[kittydesade]

I'm trying not to stress too much. It's not working. >.< But, yeah, hopefully it'll work out so well. Hopefully I'll know soon how long I should extend my goddamn lease for! Which is the major source of stress for me at the moment.

AHAHAHAHAH. Oh lordy. Okay, so, Once Upon A Time is one of the fairy-tales-come-to-our-world shows running around right now, originally going to be Fables as a TV series but then they did something else because of reasons. And one of the big villains in it is Rumplestiltskin who is, well, a fucking Sorcerer. He's also one of the most entertaining characters on the show. I think, anyway.

So, yesterday/last ep we got his backstory, and apparently he made a deal with some Big Dark Nasty and ended up killing it and absorbing its power and taking on some of its looks and basically becoming a big dark nasty himself. And all I can think is, oh, I did that first with Glaucon and the vulture demon.

And he's wee because he's played by Robert Carlyle, who is all of 5'7ish. 5'8? Something. Wee adorable Scotsman.