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[kittydesade]

У каждой гордой «сталники», развернувшейся потемкинскии фасадом на ближайший проспект, обязательно был дворником, саребущим асфальт по утрам.
Every proud Stalin block displaying its Potemkin facade to the broad avenue beside it had to have a yard -- large and green, with tables and benches, with a yard keeper sweeping the asphalt clean every morning.
By every proud [Stalin block]* [???] Potemkin facade to the neighboring/nearby avenue there necessarily was a yard keeper, [???] asphalt in the morning/every morning.
[Possessive? preposition? phrase? (possessive marker, genitive adjective, genitive adjective, genitive noun)] [??verb form... verbal adjective??] [adjective] [noun.. instrumental case?**] [prepositional phrase (preposition, adjective, noun)] [adverb] [verb past tense][noun] [???] [noun accusative] [prepositional phrase (preposition, time noun)]


на - to, towards - takes the accusative
дворник - yard-keeper

* using their word for it because I don't have the context to pick a different English word/phrase.
** this may require going over the uses of the instrumental case


There was six hours of sleep all right. In two hour increments, between one cat and another. Mostly Mikey. When a 20 pound cat walks up and down over you, it's very hard to sleep. Then there was cat vomit in the shower when I hauled myself out of bed to shower, after sleeping in through my exercise, so I haven't had that. Except when I got in to work and had to haul around all the boxes for [redacted], which have been charged out and will be picked up today, so that's something. Yesterday there was scrambling all over heaven and earth to finish up the order to [redacted] after several emails went astray so I didn't find out some things in a timely fashion. Plus a coupon that I wasn't told about till people breezed in talking about "Groupon" and "chicken." Now, for those of you just joining us, I work at a store called Earth Guild. We get mistaken for Earth Fare a lot. When someone walks in and babbles something non-specific that even they're not sure about involving Groupon and chicken, I assume that person wants Earth Fare. ESPECIALLY IF NO ONE TOLD ME ABOUT ANY COUPONS WE WERE OFFERING IN THE FIRST GODDAMN PLACE. This after a three hour box-slinging session where the boxes are 30lb+ boxes, plus the chaos of multi-thousand dollar international orders, so my brain is not at my best. Then I get to go home and herd non-literal cats. Then I get no sleep.

So, really, this is fair warning. I am not a happy kitty. I am, in fact, a kitty who will bite at the least bit of provocation, so until I get some actual sleep, I cannot vouch for my civility or manners. I am not in a mood to be cheered up. I am in a mood to hit something.

If I get my tables cleared of shit to pack today and no one else calls in with a multi-thousand dollar order to the far ends of the earth I might be a happier kitty. We'll see.

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[kikibug13]

We'll see, indeed. Yowl.

дворник -> person keeping the yard clean. (Different from дворик, which is diminutive for yard.)

So the translation actually inserted a section. "Every proud 'Stalinite', displaying its Potemkin facade to the near broad avenue, necessarily had a yard cleaner, sweeping/cleaning the asphalt in the morning." Or something to that effect.

So overall? Pretty damn good.

Also, with such an order, you get your exercise out...

[kittydesade]

I should look into the prices of punching bags, while I'm thinking of things the new house needs. I could really, really use to hit something.

Ahh-hah. Okay, yeah, that makes sense, with the 'nik' being as far as I've seen so far used mostly as a person designation. Heh, I knew they inserted something, I just couldn't quite tell which part. >.<

Still, at least my sense of it is improving? Vocabulary, vocabulary.

Between that and what I have left to do today from yesterday that didn't get done. I wish I'd gotten more sleep last night.

[kikibug13]

PINK punching bags? (SHUSH, Reid...)

Yup yup. Your sense definitely is getting better. Which is one thing that's going as it should be!

*wry* If I could have kept your cat over with me during your sleep... I would have.