yuuago | Entries tagged with languages: french

Just like I expected, outside was a skating rink today. Ice every-fucking-where. I considered going out, but I slipped and fell on my ass as soon as I got to the end of the driveway, so... there went that idea. Ended up spending two hours chipping at ice instead. Sigh. Hopefully it'll be a bit less slick out there tomorrow.

Started rereading Reaper Man. I have absolutely zero recollection of this Discworld novel, even though I've read it before. Only read it once, though, which probably explains. I tend to really enjoy the Death books though, so I expect I'll like this one as well. We will seeeee....

After some cute fanart for Miraculous Ladybug crossed my dash, I decided to check it out. I remember there was a bit of excitement a handful of years ago when the 2D production video came out, but then it turned out that the actual series would be 3d, and for an even younger audience than originally expected, and some people were disappointed. And I confess, I'm a little disappointed in what the actual show is like too - the PV looked pretty cool - but... oh well, it's cute?

Thing is - I decided to watch it in French, because hey, it's a French production (well, French/Korean), and the story takes place in France, and I need to practice my French, so why not. But ohhh good lord, that attempt was just - basically I was hit smack in the face with the fact that my French is truly terrible, fff. I just. FFFF. If I caught one word out of twenty, it'd be a miracle. Guess I just need to face the fact that when it comes to audio, I just - wow. So, uh, clearly that's... something I need to work on. I guess.

I wouldn't even be concerned about brushing up on it if France weren't on the list of potential places to go some time in the next few years. Buuuuut... it is. So. [/SHRUG] It is what it is, I suppose! There's plenty of time, at least. (Meanwhile, I have been completely neglecting Norwegian. Should get back on that track as well. It's hard to get in the mood for it, though, even if I prefer it.)

Crossposts: http://yuuago.livejournal.com/1282636.html

( Blogging en français )

( Norsk blogging )

Summary: I don't remember any French, Norwegian is a nightmare, and some days I can barely remember how to speak English. WHY ON EARTH am I trying to learn two other languages?! I should be brushing up on English grammar instead.

(Seriously, my English is B-A-D, sometimes it's pretty embarrassing.)

Crossposts: http://yuuago.livejournal.com/1271557.html

☆ One. More. Day. I can hold out one more day, I swear. And then, FREEEEEEE. For a week. And a bit. Will I be able to survive tomorrow?! (I'd better)

☆ No Reading Wednesday this week because I haven't been reading. ... Well, not published stuff, anyway. Um. I've been reading fanfiction on my commute instead. The bus wifi doesn't work so well, but if I load up the page before I leave home, I'm good. So, I've been catching up on some things. There are a lot of things I've been meaning to get around to reading, but when I'm at home I'm usually not in the mood, even if it's by a writer that I like. So: commute. Why not.

☆ Decided to... start poking at French. Like, definitely, now. So, I've added it to Duolingo, and I've dragged my dictionary and verbbook up from the basement, and I know I have a workbook around somewhere.... That's probably how I actually should do it, come to think, because I work well with pen and paper, so maybe I should get a cheapass scribbler or something to do it in (or do I have one already? Perhaps). Still haven't decided how to balance it with Norwegian, though. Trying to do both will be... uh... interesting. Hmm.

☆ Today's SSSS page got me flailing, but not for the same reasons that it got other people flailing.
( More about that under the cut )

Crossposts: http://yuuago.livejournal.com/1271382.html

Doot doot doot this is sort of a to-do list for the weekend and sort of not.
( Snip! )

Crossposts: http://yuuago.livejournal.com/1246738.html

( Norsk blogging )

( Explanation of the above )

( Some tl;dr about Norwegian )

Crossposts: http://yuuago.livejournal.com/1237666.html

French keeps screwing me up. If I go even a few days without studying Norwegian, French takes over my brain again and keeps insinuating itself and making me forget words and structures and arrrrrgh, FRENCH.

The result is that it makes me want to write in some kind of bastardized French-Norwegian mix, because that's what my brain spits out. So I find myself wanting to write stuff like "Je liker der bøkene de Jo Nesbø" and that's just WRONG. So terribly, terribly wrong.

It doesn't help that "Jeg" is one letter off from "Je". This is clearly terrible.

But I'm laughing while pulling my hair out, so that's okay. :D

Crossposts: http://yuuago.livejournal.com/1203949.html

Nothing interesting happening, as usual. Might go downtown with mum if she is feeling well enough. She has been out of the hospital for a while now, but she's still feeling sick... at this point I don't know if it's because of the infection or because of the medication is on. I'm so frustrated with the situation because I can't do much to make it better.

It seems like everything on the internet is annoying me lately, so I think I might take a couple days break from social things and catch up on behind-the-scenes. Indexing. Reading fic. Cutting down on the amount of things on my massive to-read list, both in terms of fanfiction and published books, haa.

Lately I've been simultaneously inspired to study Norwegian more and frustrated by the lack of time to do it. I'm sure if I could work at it for like... even twenty minutes every day, I'd be better with it than I am, but I often don't have time after work in which I have the mental capacity and energy to study anything. That leaves the weekend.

In a half-assed effort to make it more relevant to my everyday life I switched the language settings on my ipod to Norwegian, but I really should find a way to make time for concrete studying, rrrgh.

It certainly doesn't help that Dutch keeps seducing me with sexy rough sounds, mm. And if that Montreal trip does work out after all (who knows), I should brush up on French, shouldn't I - argh, I need to stop being magpieish with languages. And hobbies in general. I don't have time to have so many interests.

Argh, I keep getting ideas for stories, but without time to write them it just does nothing but frustrate me. And then of course there's that long thing that I still have not finished. I think I'm going to print it out and try to do the editing that way. Sometimes it's easier to do it when I can physically mark it all up with red pen, especially if it's kind of long. Easier to take it one page at a time that way.

Current Music: Bob Marley - Iron Lion Zion

The last few days have been ridiculously cold and I'm quite frankly getting rather tired of it. I was hoping for a nice, warm day or two when the work rotation is finished, but it looks like it'll continue to hover around -40. Clearly the world is doing this just to make me miserable. ;)

And I will not lie, it's been kind of dull sitting at a desk for ten days in a row and I really need a break - but on the other hand, all I need to do is remind myself that I'm making [ridiculous amount of money] per day, and that there is plenty of downtime in which to read (and I finished 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea yesterday, as a matter of fact).

I've been studying Norwegian more than usual recently, because there has been downtime at work and I feel better about it if I'm doing something other than dicking around on LJ. So, I signed up for Livemocha, and I must say, I really enjoy the flashcards feature. Oi love flashcards. I guess it's mostly because when I'm learning language-related things, one of the biggest problems I have is that I have difficulty learning the vocabulary. And the Pimsleur lessons I was using before were great for learning how to put phrases together, but when it comes to teaching vocabulary... not so much.

The actual Livemocha lessons aren't so bad either. So, we'll see if I keep up with it. Who knows, maybe I'll try something else. There are only a limited amount of lessons for Norwegian, so if I finish all of them I might try Dutch - or try to take another stab at French. Good gods, I have such a love-hate (mostly hate) relationship with French. I keep thinking that if I bang my head against it long enough, it'll start sticking. I studied French for way too long to suck at it as much as I do.

All that aside... oh, man. I am so looking forward to having some free time. At the end of the work day I have absolutely no energy to do anything -- and also no time. (And with the horrible weather we've been having, maybe I'll be able to keep the shopping itch at bay, and focus on things like writing. ;p Who knows.)

Current Music: Rainbow - 16th Century Greensleeves

WELL. Let's see.

☆ We put up the tree today. We used to do two trees, one downstairs and one upstairs, but this year we are only doing the upstairs tree, so fortunately it took just the afternoon rather than the whole day. Check it out under the cut-

( Very, very sparkly )
'cept, we haven't gotten a new star for it yet, not tinsel neither... but I didn't want to wait to take a photo, haha. Oh, well! So there it is. ... We'll see what it looks like when the dogs get to it. I am not optimistic.

☆ After much thought I've decided to drop French and start setting myself up to learn some Finnish. I'd originally planned to hold out until I finished my French workbook, but I honestly don't think that'll happen - I have no motivation to study French at all, whereas I think that even though I'm busy, I'll have the drive to make time to work on Finnish, because I really like it and want to learn it. I think what finally pushed me, though, was Minni teasing me about how I'd pronounced her surname wrong. Pfft. If I'm going to go there, then at the very least I should learn some pronunciation, goddamn. I don't even know what sounds vowels with umlauts make! This needs to change. ... So I've downloaded some materials and I'll see about getting a workbook somehow, and maybe I'll start this week.

☆ I started reading World War Z the other day and I have a sneaking feeling that I'm going to have a load of nightmares by the end of it. Zombies are one of those things I can't handle -- and yet, I find the idea fascinating. I think it's related to my fascination with plague and contagion, something I also find terrifying. But there's something about zombies that gets me in a way that, say, the Black Death doesn't. Not sure what it is. Regardless, I'll probably find the novel hard to get through, but it's my own fault.

☆ I'm going to be really busy and probably kind of nonsocial in the next few weeks. We'll be heading into Christmas hours, so my time around will be even more limited than usual, and I'll be absolutely exhausted most of the time. I'm not exactly thrilled about this. On the upside, at least I'm going to have Solstice off. I'm willing to put up with this because the pay is good and at least, at the very least, I get Solstice off.

☆ And I'm working on getting the cards done... slowly! There's a lot of you guys. It might take a while.

Current Music: Kent - Töntarna

Before I forget - anyone who wants a Christmas card from me and hasn't already said so, let me know in this entry. Yes, I know it's rather early to be planning for this. Shhh.

Anyway! I'm feeling better now. Still sore, but feeling better. Thank you, everyone, for your support. <3

I got a surprise package from Minni today. Letters! And salmiakki chocolate! Ahhh <3 It made me so happy, and kind of took away some of the sting of receiving my bills in the same batch of mail, ouch. It also reminded me that I still owe several people letters. (I intend to write them, really! It's just that I have trouble finding quiet time to do it!)

I keep wrestling with myself. I need to learn to relax! The problem is, I have so little free time and I'm never able to get anything done. So, if I just chill out instead of doing the things that I need to do, I tend to feel awful about it.

... I say this because I spent most of the afternoon playing my harmonica instead of studying French, and now I feel bad about it. I should have used that time to study. I only get two days in a week that I realistically have time to study, and today was one of those days.

On the other hand, it's good that I used that time because it's hard to get a chance to play it - I can't play it when mum's home because that's annoying, so I have to either go outside (and damn, it's cold) or wait until she leaves (which doesn't happen often).

But STILL. I shouldn't neglect studying---

... Even though it's just for fun and there's no need to push myself hard because I'm not getting graded on this and it isn't as if the French is anything more than a hobby and --

Yeah, basically that. That harmonica is just way too tempting, man. It's shiny and cool and it's super fun to play it even though I really, really suck at it.

Current Music: The Highwaymen - The Gypsy Rover

Parts of this week have been awful and I kind of don't want to talk about it. BUT. There were some things that were good!

☆ I HAVE A JOB. I'm now employed! It's at a posh men's clothing store. Unfortunately, not exactly a career job. However, it's good to have some work while I brush up credentials to get something better. And even more, the pay at this place is really good - even compared to this city's trend of uncommonly high wages - and it's full time. Lots of cash and being able to get out of the house? Yes! Sounds good to me.

☆ My copy of La Grande Illusion came in. Oh good gods, words can't even describe how happy I am about this, and how much I love this movie. I've seen it several times, and every time over it's still wonderful. I hesitated buying it for months, because I preferred the Criterion edition, which is... very, very expensive, ahhh. But I finally caved and now it's mine and I'm going to watch it tomorrow. <3 I just wish I had someone to watch it with. I wouldn't be able to do that with my parents because they refuse to watch movies with subtitles.

☆ My parents are gone for four days! I'm looking forward to relaxing... and writing. It's very frustrating that I can't write here; ordinarily there are too many distractions and people bothering me, and if I write at the kitchen table (where I'm most comfortable sitting) then there are the inevitable questions about what I'm working on. It's better to leave the house to do it. But now I'll be able to do it. I really want to make some headway on that Sweden/Finland story, try to get it done. Maybe start something else too, maybe some Sweden/Norway or Estonia/Finland. And I have a few ideas for original stuff that I want to try working on. We'll see! This should be exciting.

☆ When I'm not writing in these next few days, I'm going to be studying French. Renewed enthusiasm, get! It's still so difficult but I mind a little bit less than I did before. I guess actually using it to write journal entries has been helping (though I need to keep up with that... need to do another). And I've finally decided what language I will do after I'm done with French. I've settled on Finnish. I guess it's not too much of a surprise, but I find it surprising that I reached the conclusion at this time. It's just, I was thinking about that language this morning, and then this feeling came to me, a feeling of "Yes, it will be this one. I want to try this one." But I won't start that until I'm done my French (probably at the end of the year), and even then I'll still keep up with French at Lang-8 because I'm sure that for quite a while I won't know enough Finnish to write an entry.

Current Music: The Killers - When You Were Young

☆ I made Apple loaf the other day. It was so good, oh my gods. Highly recommended if one has apples and wants to do something other than pies with them. However, the instructions for the cinnamon topping are not good; one needs to add butter to it, otherwise it will not work properly. I advise to use the crumble topping in the blueberry muffins recipe I posted a few weeks ago instead. Alternately, one can just leave the topping off, like in a regular fruit or vegetable loaf. All that aside, I made three pies again today and now we finally do not have any apples left.

☆ I have started an account at Lang-8 because

scrii is a hoser who ropes me into things like this. Basically, one writes journal entries in the language one is learning. Other people can then correct it. Er, I think, anyway. Still figuring it out. The thought of someone reading my 'orrible Franglais is rather embarrassing but it's another way for me to learn, so there is that. But good gods is it ever challenging; I don't really have the vocabulary to write anything so I have to look almost every word up and it takes me about an hour to write a short paragraph, sob. But at least it'll help, I think. After having a conversation with a certain person about this learning French, I think I've somehow become even more stubborn about it than I was before. Not sure where that will lead, but at the very least, I'm determined to actually finish my workbook.

☆ In two weeks my parents will be going south to Jasper, because my father must attend a conference there. This means that I will be alone for a few days. Score! ... Unfortunately, I will have to babysit my brother's dogs during that period of time. Not-score. But on the other-other hand, I know for certain that I'm able to study while alone with the dogs, and I am not able to study when I'm being bothered by my mother every five minutes. So, stupid animals or not, it's still an improvement.

☆ Ahhh I've been slacking on writing so much. orz I've been meaning to do my daily drabbles but there are too many distractions. But I'm going to try to catch up on that... and hopefully when my parents are gone I'll be able to get some real fic-writing done; maybe finish that Swe/Fin fic that I was writing, or at least finish drafting it. And drabble catch-up... and I think (I hope) I'll be able to do the indexing tonight. I really shouldn't have let it go for so long, but I've been all over the place lately! Ahhh ;;;

Current Music: Kyo - Le Chemin

Going for long walks on cold autumn nights is so nice. It's something about the chill in the air and the movement, I think. And being the only one out there. Something like that.

It's hard to find time to concentrate on anything. Hard to read, hard to study. Studying also made difficult by lack of motivation... part of the problem with French is that I don't actually like it much as a language. It's neither audibly nor visually pleasing to me. I'm going to stick with it, just need to find time and peace and quiet and maybe a different way to study... I'm going to try making flashcards tomorrow, maybe that'll help, at least with remembering things.

Everything seems so slow and still, because nothing has changed. Still haven't been doing anything. Still don't have a job. I haven't gotten a single call back, and it's very upsetting.

Other things are upsetting, too. But I don't think I want to say much about that.

So tired. Not much else to say, anyway. Here, have some pretty music by a Canadian band.

confictionary linked it to me, saying the song reminded her of Sweden/Finland. Well, perhaps, but now it makes me think of her, too.

Current Music: Great Lake Swimmers - Your Rocky Spine

I WENT DRIVING. ON THE BIG ROAD. Score! I drove all the way to my brother's house and back, through major intersections and everything. I'm very proud of myself, haa. Still a little bit nervous because good gods I hate fast busy streets, but I'm getting better at this whole thing, and I haven't crashed into anything yet! (And hopefully that won't happen at all, but we will see, urgh). If we keep going like this, then I'll probably be driving all the way downtown in no time, and after that -- proper driving lessons! And my license! I want to have this business all over with before the snow falls.

Still trying to push through with French. Argh, I'm so bad at it, and it seems like no matter how much of it I do, I still feel like I'm not learning anything. I'm probably picking up more than I think, but it doesn't feel that way. What it feels like, is like I'm banging my head against a wall and expecting some result other than a headache. I dunno'. But I have to finish making my way through all the material, because I promised myself I would. And after that I can try a different language. (Still can't decide between Swedish, Finnish, and Polish, but we will see how I feel about each of them when I'm done with French). Perhaps when I move on to a language that actually appeals to me, I will do better.

In other (better?) news, I wrote something original for the first time in years yesterday. Something that is not fanfiction and does not have myself or one of my friends as a character, I mean. I haven't done anything with proper original characters in such a long time... to do that now, it feels so good! I realise now that I missed that character so, so much -- though he certainly has undergone many transformations since I first made him back in high school. So now I want to write something with him, but I need to revise his storyline a lot. Need to do more research on modern Estonia too, but any excuse is a good excuse to read more about Estonia. Ahhh I just, I'm so happy that I've finally written something other than fanfiction.

What else was there -- OH YES. AND. A PSA:

BRB GOING TO SASKATOON

My family and I will be going there this weekend to move the stuff from my apartment back to Fort McMurray. Actually, we'll be leaving a few hours from now. It takes over 12 hours to get there, so we will drive halfway there tonight, the rest of the way early Friday morning, and thennn begin the nightmare that is packing things up. Sigh. Hopefully we will start driving back on Sunday, but we might have to stay there until Monday... it depends on how everything goes.

I am not looking forward to all that, certainly. AND they said that they want me to drive part of the way. I think, what the hell are they thinking, I'm not even comfortable in residential streets, and they want me to drive my dad's big truck on the highway at 100 km/h? ... Then again, on the prairies there tend to be these big stretches of road where nothing happens for hours and hours, so maybe I could do that without getting too nervous.

Anyway, I will not be here this weekend. But I won't be gone long, so don't worry! o3o <3

Oh, er, one more thing - None of that "reposting comments" stuff here, okay? I mean I doubt anyone would, 'cause y'all are cool, but er just felt I should... say it.

Current Music: Nightwish - Master Passion Greed

July 15th: Argentina legalises same-sex marriage

Reading this after waking up this morning made me very happy. Even though there are bad things going on in the world, there is still positive change happening. It's good news. Hopefully more countries in Latin America (and the rest of the world) will follow suit.

On a less political note, this is neat:

18th-century ship found at Trade Centre site

It's so cool how things like that can pop up in unexpected places. I don't hear about it happening in America as much, so that's kind of different.

...As for myself, I have been doing absolutely nothing interesting lately. Well, that's not entirely true. I've been studying French a bit more. I'm still extremely bad at it, but at least I'm getting better at hearing spoken French and identifying what is being said. I can put together some simple sentences too... I mean it's all extremely basic, but considering for the most part my knowledge consists only of "Je ne parle pas francais", I think it's a little bit of an improvement. :|

Okay, I've been watching a lot of movies too, recently. Partly it's because I've decided I will use this method to relax myself, but it's also because mum sent me a bunch of dvds for my birthday, so I've been going through them. It's... nice. Nice to just sit and watch something and work on my knitting during that, and not be concerned about communicating with people. "Me" time. It's good. I should spend time unplugged more often, I think. Argh.

Current Music: Leevi and the Leavings - Toiveunta

☆ It's been storming so damn much lately, I don't even get it. Not just storming, but flooding as a result of the storms. It's pretty damn bad in some parts of Saskatoon; same for elsewhere in the province - man, when the Globe and Mail bothers to report on it, that's when you know that the situation is bad. There have also been problems with tornadoes touching down in Saskatchewan. It's all kind of freaky, and it really makes me miss Fort McMurray's extreme-but-stable weather. What the hell is going on, Saskatchewan?

☆ School is driving me insane. I've been kind of distant from a lot of people, I think, and that's the reason. Haa, what else is new, really. Same old thing, that.

☆ On the upside, doing some reading has at least been giving me some time to calm down. It's especially good that I can talk about it with Bice, even though usually it's just "what part are you at, and wasn't such-and-such scene awesome", haa. I don't know, it's just.. it's good.

☆ I've started working on French again. Just Pimsleur audio lessons, usually while indexing or doing something else. I don't know if I'll actually learn anything from it; I'm not much of an audio learner, and the lessons I've been going through so far are quite basic. On the other hand, they have helped me realize that my French pronunciation is absolutely awful, and always has been. My audio comprehension has never been good, either... so maybe it will help a bit, despite not being my preferred medium. We'll see.

☆ My two teams are out of the World Cup and now I have absolutely no idea who to cheer for. :| I guess I'll go with Uruguay, because that's who Odie's cheering for, but I don't know if they can do it, man.

☆ Nordic Indexing is going well. Parts 1-13 are done; now going through past-parts, which is a bit of a headache. It goes quickly, though. I like looking at the numbers and seeing changes in trends. It's kind of cool to see the rough change in popularity of some characters over time, and discrepancies in how many prompts a character receives compared to how many fills are written involving that character. For example, Sweden has more filled-requests than Denmark does, and a higher percentage of filled requests/total (39% vs 31%). But Denmark became more popular than Sweden in a relatively short period of time, despite having very little page-time; he has more requests, and is more frequently requested. On the other hand, Finland has fewer prompts and fills than either of those two, but has a higher percentage of filled requests (42%).

... Though this doesn't account for change in trends over time, just overall numbers. And I don't know what it might mean aside from "Nordics fans really, really like Denmark".

Current Music: Alexander Rybak - Suomi

Here, have something cool: Ultraviolet light reveals lost details in Giotto's artwork

I feel a lot better today than I did yesterday. Many thanks to everyone who said things to me. Think I needed that.

Had a presentation for medieval this morning. Getting ready for it involved lots... and lots... of flailing. And I ended up printing off five copies of my version of the notes, rather than the prettied-up handout version, ughhh. But even with that, and the fact that I slipped and fell twice on the icy sidewalk on the way to the bus stop, things were mostly okay. The presentation went well. Gods know I can tl;dr about Malory and Vinaver for a long, long time.

Came home. Powernapped. Spent the rest of the day feeling sick from staying up all night, haa, but it's fine. Oh the things I put myself through. I did do some French today so it's not a whole loss. Though I haven't been practising it as much as I should, I'm still having fun with it. At this point most of it is still review... we'll see how it goes when I start learning new things. Might be a while. I've forgotten so much. I do hope I'll stick with this - finish the workbook at least, get my money's worth from it (though now that I think on it, I didn't pay for it. Yay, gift cards). After that... ehhh we'll see if I continue with it, or try a different language. Spanish? Or maybe go back to the ~rebellious teenage years~ when I tried to teach myself German? Who knows.

I'm still bummed about various things, even if my mood is lifted a bit. My left hand hurts from fingertip to mid-forearm. Fucking. Well, I guess I'll just have to go easy on it for the next few days. I'll probably be like, almost completely incapable of doing much after I get my teeth out anyway. :| I'm probably going to spend a ton of time reading and watching movies. We'll see.

SIGH

Current Music: Nanne Grönvall - Kvarnen

Today was uneventful. Slept in until ridiculous o'clock, talked with Minako a while, then headed out. The weather was quite good today, and I was rather happy to be getting some fresh air. Ended up heading down to Indigo. Still had some money left on a giftcard, so I bought myself a French workbook. That, combined with the computer stuff I've been using - some Byki, some Rosetta Stone - should help me quite a bit. It's one thing to go through it on the computer, and another thing to write stuff out. If I do both, maybe I'll remember things better.

Oh - now I remember. I did get something very exciting in the mail today. <3 Ahhh~ Ellie sent me the 2009 'Heritage Project' APH Illustration Anthology. So gorgeous, oh my gods, so many beautiful illustrations - and not to mention, Radittz has some art in it, so that makes me extra-happy, because she's my favourite. Soo-oo, it's very nice to have this, and Ellie is wonderful, aaaand yes.

Anyway. In "Yuu is smart and by smart I really mean a ditz", I don't know how much time I spent looking around for a calendar that would fit on the one bit of my fridge that doesn't have stuff stuck to it. Couldn't find one. BUT. Today I realized - I can make my own. Wow. 5 minutes PSP + printer = one rad monthly sheet, currently featuring the Nordics in their olympics jackets. Man, Finland, your coat is hideous. ANYWAY, I feel ditzy because it took me so long to think of it, but now I'm pleased as punch that I actually thought of it. Go me!

Should be in bed right now because I have another physio appointment tomorrow shortly before lunch, fuck. Oh, well, who needs sleep anyway. To be honest, my wrist isn't doing too great right now, which I'm not thrilled about. Oh, well. And I'll have to do homework after the appointment, too... aaa. Well, I'll just have to be sure to go easy on it, and take many breaks.

( 13-1? Sweden wtf r u doin. Also, thoughts on Own the Podium )

Scholar examines reports of solar eclipses in the Middle Ages

( Blah blah medieval stuff )

Still feeling incredibly nonsocial. SORRY GUYS. I guess I'm still in a funk.

To ease my woes I have been pretending to be a Scandinavian country on the internet. What is this I don't even. Hetalia, I love you, but you make my life weird in very subtle ways.

I have also made plans with

pentatonikk. We are going to go to Wales. We will travel to it on the back of a giant magical talking fish, and have many adventures along the way, and it is going to be glorious.

Also, hi, it is 2:30 AM and I have an essay due on Tuesday morning and I am nowhere near even close to being halfway finished. Fuck me, what is this. HOWEVER at least it's on something that I know somewhat about. Though I do wish I hadn't left my copy of Shepherd's edition of Le Morte Darthur back at my mum's place. Though I'm also doing the presentation on this, and since I'll be visiting her soon, I'll be able to grab it while I'm there.

I was doing French today, and I kept getting so drawn out by the accent used in the program, because it's so French. Goddamnit, I'm used to hearing oui as "ouais", not "oui", and hearing it as "oui" is so damn jarring. Also, when I was learning it in school, we learned more informal forms of some phrases, rather than the formal. So, having the program tell me to write it as "Comment allez-vous?" rather than "Comment ça va?" throws me out of the whole thing and makes me go WUT. Ehhh that's the only one that really jumps out at me at the moment, though there are others. A lot of this is like, really really basic stuff, stuff I already know. But I'm still glad I'm doing the super-basic stuff first because there is a lot of stuff I forgot, or didn't know, like that there's an accent over the i in "s'il vous plaît". Back in high school I never bothered to take note of the accents because I am a horrible person.

Oh snap, it's getting late. I wonder what the French equivalent of "Oh snap" is. Or other equivalents! HEY PEOPLE WHO SPEAK STUFF OTHER THAN ENGLISH, PLEASE TELL ME WHAT IS THE EQUIVALENT PHRASE FOR "OH SNAP". I love the phrase because it's kind of like "oh shit", but not really; it seems it implies a more suddenness, like the sound of snapping, or being unexpectedly hit in the face with something.

... I think I really need to get to bed.

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Cannot unhear "rad bromance" in the lyrics, always. Pfft.

Spoke with mum, and she arranged the travel plans. I'll be in Fort McMurray from the 11th to the 16th. Pretty rad. Two days before that I have an essay due (I really need to get on that), and then on the 10th I have physio, but other than that I've plenty of time for it. Since my mum will be working during the daytime I'll probably be spending a lot of time re-reading manga. At the very least, I want to get Saiyuki re-read. I'll also be cleaning out my closet and going through the rest of my G3 ponies, figuring out which ones I want to get rid of.

Today has been very up and down and up and down and ugh, just not good at all. WELL THEN. So much for that. Needless to say I am not pleased. But agh, maybe what I need is just a change of scenery. Maybe going home will help. In any case, I did get some things done today; updated the index, did my exercises, practised French, etc.

I think I'm going to try to bump up my French practising to at least a couple times per week. If I don't keep going at it, I'm just going to forget everything again. Right now, what I've been doing is just trying to memorize vocab, a half-hour at a time. We spent a lot of time on grammar in high school, but I never could remember what any of the words meant, and half the time we didn't go over the meaning of them to begin with, especially the verbs. So I've been doing that, and it's going okay so far. 8| We'll see if I keep up with it. I mean, there are other languages I want to learn, but I really should try to stick with this one, because it's at least sort of useful. (I keep telling myself this)

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