HAVE to make a try!
Today I tried maybe two or three Duolingo Japanese-to-Chinese exercises but there was a dog barking in the background at the same time as my attempt so I immediately stopped since I couldn't focus. I mean, I know I have earplugs but I also find them annoyingly itchy in my head so it didn't work out as well as could be fathomed. There's also the chance I might not know the word anyway, like this one Kanji that popped up the other day - I have a Kodansha Kanji dictionary in my room for the occasions when these specific instances arise, which I have found useful before... I have dictionaries in both Japanese and Chinese to English, which is my original native language, but I am trying to learn something new, to guard against problems from a certain difficulty I had experienced when getting lost driving home and getting lost in 2008. [Also I've researched slightly about Alzheimer's, because I want to help people who have been formally diagnosed with this and related dementia conditions, so it does not lapse into what I have read about suicide, a topic which I dislike tagging as it might eventually relate to me.]
I kinda remember the previous incident I mentioned before the brackets. I had taken a wrong turn when driving home from a Chesco Pops concert, by the stories I've been told about what horrors I had wreaked on my family members & friends.
I think the word I was looking up meant empty anyway.
According to the story, I got airlifted to the nearest hospital. That had been the last Chesco Pops concert I have ever participated in, where Anna Montejo was the first oboist (there may or may not have been other oboists but I do not recall these details as clearly; I think so) - I still have an oboe which I am bringing with me to Cambridgeshire, because I am still a concert oboist, but I am currently in a significantly hampered position now because of my various and significant injuries which still hurt me enough that I'm not most likely not sounding as well as I previously had, and it isn't a "good" instrument one bit, either.
Noting that I was in physical pain at that time, I took some acetaminophen, which will likely work around 11 in the morning, so at that point I may begin to work on my sketch more.
Right now I have a cat in my lap of which I just brushed its coat clean. She just hopped off so maybe I could check the dictionary now.
Hmm. As I recall: house, abandon, and ... Gosh, I'm not sure, I have particularly enjoyed painting hanzi, the smells are especially notable and memorable, but I don't know what any of it is really supposed to mean.
Maybe I really will have to check, then.
別荘 - bessou - is a villa or a vacation home.
I suppose I was right then, the abandon was abandoning-stress! I remember doing a colossal project about this subject earlier.
There are two characters there, so I might actually have just picked a word I liked that seemed remotely plausible.
But possibly not. I almost wrote that I had never been good at picking up on undertones, until I remembered that I was coming to the University as an oboist, except that I didn't strictly want to do it, because I finally wanted to explore my age-eight curiosity of cloning.
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OOPS! I suddenly shocked Cora by trying to pet her on the head! She jumped practically half a metre in the air like she hadn't all morning! I researched that cats self-soothe by purring. I hope I didn't hurt her heart too badly ;_;
I claimed before I had indestructible cats, but if I didn't have indestructible birds, than what makes me think that the cats will be any different?
I mean to sketch on that, having gotten an idea from my colleagues in the field. As it is, at a little past eleven in my time-zone I have been brushing off cat hair from what I have so far, and thinking about how the bulkier coils under the purple-glossed snake's head resemble what I had researched about those French hair salons. It triggered the memory of an anime I watched about Marie Antoinette with my German classmate Christelle in high school (who since emigrated to Belgium). I don't remember if it had very good music. ROSE OF VERSAILLES - it did NOT have a memorable OP.