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[callmepatsy]

i.  In my opinion, best thing about Halloween?  The day after when everyone brings their leftover candy into the office.  Free candy!  This is the grown-up's trick-or-treat.

ii. Changed clocks over the week-end, and so now it's completely dark by 5 pm.  I do not approve.

iii. Is the election tomorrow bringing out all the crackpots in Washington DC?

Comments

[inksplotched]

SPEAK PORTUGUESE WITH ME OH MY GOD

oi moça, tudo bem? o que você está fazendo hoje?

note the fact that i removed all brazilian chatspeak in order to make this easier for you.

[inksplotched]

also that means i should obtain those dvds because i would actually be able to read the subtitles. win.

[callmepatsy]

You would definitely be able to read the subtitles, and OMYGOD your icon is win.

[inksplotched]

your icon is pretty bitchin' itself!

[callmepatsy]

I doubt I can actually produce sentences in Portuguese, but I am gaining the ability to translate them. For example...tudo=everything, things...bem=well, and....que voce esta...what am I...fazendo=doing? today?

[afterthree]

Every time someone says "come on" now, all I can think is VAMOS!

[callmepatsy]

I just did a "molto bene!" in a staff meeting. I know that's not Portuguese, but I still really like saying it.

[_thirty2flavors]

I feel like "allons-y" might work its way into my vernacular, which is kind of weirder when most people around here speak French, and I am not one of them.

[callmepatsy]

I'm trying to work that one in.

[_thirty2flavors]

I went through a phase where for whatever reason when I wanted to ask the time I always wanted to ask it in French, and I always had to like.. sto pmyself and make myself say it in English. I don't even know why or how I picked this up, but it's weird becaues my French est terrible.

[callmepatsy]

I still sometimes trip up and say "what's this/that?" in Russian, which is bizarre because I haven't spoken Russian regularly in, like 5 years at least.

[_thirty2flavors]

Oh the strange effects of learning second languages, I guess.
Are you fluent in Russian? Because that's awesome.

[callmepatsy]

Not anymore really, time was I was fairly fluent...I took it in college, but also growing up there were always Russian coaches around....I think that's why "what's that" stuck in my vocabulary, because a particularly sucky attempt at some sort of move would be met with "and that was THAT?"

[_thirty2flavors]

Ooo I see. Nifty. Soemtimes I feel I should expend the neccessary effort to learn another language -- or at least master French -- but then I remember how not-gifted i was at learning French and consider it a lost cause. At least I can... read menus. Mostly.

[callmepatsy]

well, you DO live in a country where French is, like, an official language...

[_thirty2flavors]

Yeah, but the only places that really speak it to any degree are Quebec, Ontario, and New Brunswick. I happen to be right alognside Quebec, too, but like... I'm pretty sure Chelle wouldn't have even had to take it in school? She can correct me on that if I'm wrong btu I know in BC they don't have to.