Buying a house is - finally! - getting inexorably closer. I feel like 'inexorably' has connotations of 'DO NOT WANT', but clearly this is something I do want, very much. (I lay in bed thinking about bookshelves last night; I am so cool and interesting ( Read more... )

I have A Plan for naarmamo. I was woefully commenting that my naarmamo pad from last year has only 26 pages left, which is rather inconvenient for the 31 days of August, and then I realised that there are 26 letters in the alphabet, and I thought I could do something with that ( Read more... )

*sigh* I am at the point where I am about to struggle to stay awake much longer. I have utterly destroyed my body clock - I think it's smashed and in pieces under my bed somewhere - but oh, it was worth it ( Read more... )

I have just written the phrase 'Она нам говорила о проблемнов заботы и разведения яка.'

Which, of course, translates as 'She told us about the problems of yak care and breeding.'

Only, y'see, in Russian there's a lot more 'of,' and so I am DROWNING IN GENITIVES.

I may have just narrowly avoided downloading goodness knows what to the uni network. Ha ha. Oops

ANYWAY. Hello, flist. Monday! Doy ou know how many songs there are about Mondays? An insane number. "Monday, Monday" was the first one that came to mind, but thinking about it, however much I don't really like the song, "Manic Monday" is far more ( Read more... )

Right, well. I shall attempt that coherance thing, then.

( Gridlock )

I am quite, quite bored of crystallography. And I've only been revising it for, oh, half an hour? But I have come across the word 'spallation', and this clearly merits an LJ post, because well, spallation. If I hadn't written it in my notes, I wouldn't believe it was a real word ( Read more... )

Err, I'm working. Yes. Working, really. Should be. *sigh* SO MANY WORDS.

Anyway, in a break, I thought I'd wander on over to torch_wood for once. And I found this. Hee, much amusement. And then, you can substitute your own name (or any other word):
( See the funny quotes. )

1. It's sc-oh-ne, not sc-on.

2. That's sc-oh-ne, in a perfectly normal accent, right? Not a ridiculously stuck up and drawn out 'ooehhh'. Just a sort of 'oh' in the middle. If I knew the proper phonetic symbols, I'd use them, but as not, just take my word for it that it's perfectly possible to say sc-oh-ne without implying that your father owns a ( Read more... )

I am online waffling again instead of working, because clearly that is the thing to be doing. Yes. To be fair, other than the You-Know-What (I was going to type 'that which shall not be named,' and then realised why they abbreviate him to 'You Know Who' *fingers fall off*), I only have one Physics question and a lab report. And I am currently ( Read more... )