Currently quite frustrated with myself, because I have got ideas and ideas for stories (I feel like the quintessential kid in the candy store; also, the idea of having bilingual stories is really, really appealing) but I'm not writing. Which is no-one's fault but mine, but aggravating ( Read more... )

1. The other day, one of our friends moved to the States, and they gave us their two budgies, since they couldn't bring them and we had a budgie, too. This is Ray. (Sadly, my skills with a camera do not produce photos like this).

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...is Pi Day.

Hurray for Greek-symbols-that-have-survived-thousands-of-years-in-our-math-and-science-fields! Rejoice for the last elements of Classical civilization still present in our society! (I mean, without their use in the math/science fields, we wouldn't really use these symbols; maybe if you went through Classical studies or something. ( Read more... )