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This has all been very entertaining to the people around me
- What Marie Antoinette really wore.
According to Duolingo, the language learning site, I am now at 18% of French fluency and learning at Level 5. This means I have successfully tested through two sets of basic lessons, a set of phrases, ("D'accord, à plus tard!"), and some vocabulary words that name types of animals and food. I have also learned ( Read more... ) - What Marie Antoinette really wore.
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Travel Diary Day One: May 15th, Montreal
I have just returned from a trip to Montreal for Dee & Freida's ish-wedding, (they eloped last year), and Madison for Karen & Pär 's ish-wedding, (they eloped 20 years ago), and WisCon, a feminist sci-fi writer's convention. I tried to keep a journal of the trip, an attempt to work towards fixing my awful stillness, sadness, and silence.I feel like ( Read more... ) -
a moment about bread
Just a note before I launch into this particular rave: I don't really like bread. My infatuation with a good croissant, however, is not a passing flirtation, no, it is a fierce white-knuckle fucking love. When I was a child, my parents offered them to me as an ultimate treat, as fulfilling in their way as a the sugary deathbomb ambrosia in the ( Read more... ) -
dust in our hair, dust in our everything
This morning's facebook update:
Jhayne Holmes was violently woken up this morning by the ceiling above the bed being smashed in by inept contractors. Tony Jackson and I are fine, there was -just- enough of sound warning to have us in the hall by the time pieces were falling.
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Morning! How's your day been?
An interesting subplot to this trip to Montreal has been the rather immediate crumbling decay of the building we've been staying in, where Lung and Melanie have been living. One of the main walls of the building half fell down recently, as it seems mold got underneath the bricks and simply sloughed the outside layer off. Not a trivial thing, this, ( Read more... )
