kittydesade | Entries tagged with grammar: verbal noun

( Gaeilge )

Well, that's been sitting in drafts for long enough that it just needs to get posted. Ugh. I am ... not exactly out of my routines, but falling more and more behind (okay, I'm only a week's worth of behind) and it's getting annoying. Today, really need to kick that dime novel in the ass and see where the hell it's going. On the plus side, I don't have to help coordinate and pack for the show anymore, and unpacking is always so much easier.

Verbal fucking nouns are going to be the death of me; I need a different lesson plan for this. Maybe putting in the verbal nouns to Memrise and memorizing them and then figuring out the usage. ... The more I think about it, the more that sounds like the best plan.

Today I will be celebrating Beltane by walking out my goddamn garden. As you do. Okay, as I do, because my inner pagan is really lazy on the form of ritual and really meticulous on the function. Which basically amounts to the "I am Priest, This is East" school of ritual no matter where you are. That said, it is Beltane, which means spring, which means growing shit. Except I have no raised beds into which to plant things, so today I get to walk the beds, I guess. Maybe stake some things down if I can find where I left the stakes.

Interesting things are happening at work, to the tune of a co-worker's moving (for good reasons rather than bad, but still) so now I have somewhat more work to do during the days, good, but also less time to write, bad. On the other hand I wasn't getting much writing done anyway, so now I have a month to be marginally more efficient. This should, I feel, be a check-in post. Tonight or tomorrow night. Before Grimm happens and I get completely distracted.

Speaking of getting completely distracted, lunch. And Russian. And more cleaning up.

( Gaeilge )

So. Portland is a thing that happened.

(This is actually Irish from about ten days ago but I'm re-posting it now so I have some hope in hell of figuring out where I was when I went on vacation.)

I'm ... not at all sure what to make of what happened. It seems like we made considerable progress being a Thing That Exists as far as Grimm production and cast are concerned? Or maybe a People Who Exist. One of the two. And it was a lot of fun, the other stuff. We saw a Cirque show (Totem), we saw a Delta Rae concert, we had lunch with a friend a couple times, we hit up Powells for an amount of money I am ashamed to speak of (but oh the tasty books I got, except one), we walked all over Portland or at least certain areas of it. Saw a couple outdoor settings. It was, overall, a really productive and relaxing trip. Even if I did get sick for a couple of days, and I'm still trying to shake this cough.

But there's not much in the way of concrete information there about a few vital things, such as how we're received? Does the cast talk about us? We do have reasonable evidence that someone has been talking to them about us, but who? How? In what light? Argh.

Anyway. I'm back. I'm mostly recovered. Recovered enough at least to restart my exercise routine, which, ow. And scaling it up a bit for Dragon*Con, double ow. Although it's hard to say what Dragon*Con will be this year. There's not nearly as many people going who I want to meet as I'd expected. So we'll see how that goes, but at least I'll be fit and look awesome in costumes. And there may be panels. I have to see what various tracks are doing.