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It snowed so much last night that I could barely open the door. I took one look at the driveway, and the snow that was heaped up so high that it was practically over the top of my boots, and considered just saying "fuck it" and staying home. It would've been nice to just curl up under some blankets with some coffee and watch Star Trek all day, or something.
Ended up going to work in the end, though. Better that than have to explain to my mum "The weather is shit so I decided not to go in". Besides, money is nice.
Been trying to find a way to incorporate studying Norwegian more into my day, because I've been neglecting it so badly. Listening to my audiofiles while I do my nightly run seems to work, though by that time of day I'm so exhausted that I question whether I'm actually absorbing anything. Not to mention that it doesn't help the fact that I currently can't read or write it, ah. But on the other hand, I'm not serious about this, and something is better than nothing.
I was going to go on a big tl;dr about how it's difficult to learn anything, and with languages I find it especially disheartening because everyone seems to take the matter very seriously, whereas I just want to go about it slowly and take tiny steps, but - well, I thin I've talked about that enough times.
But anyway, combining it with my nightly walk sounds good. I'm trying to do that thing where you keep track of how far you walk, and try to keep at it enough that eventually you walk the same distance as it would take to get from the Shire to Mount Doom. So far I'm... uh. 0.03% of the way to Rivendell. [/facepalm] But hopefully I'll keep at it. :D
Must admit, seeing The Hobbit at new year's made me want to re-read the book. And... maybe try to read Lord of the Rings again. I tried it once years ago, but I got bored halfway through the second book and didn't bother to try again.
Ended up going to work in the end, though. Better that than have to explain to my mum "The weather is shit so I decided not to go in". Besides, money is nice.
Been trying to find a way to incorporate studying Norwegian more into my day, because I've been neglecting it so badly. Listening to my audiofiles while I do my nightly run seems to work, though by that time of day I'm so exhausted that I question whether I'm actually absorbing anything. Not to mention that it doesn't help the fact that I currently can't read or write it, ah. But on the other hand, I'm not serious about this, and something is better than nothing.
I was going to go on a big tl;dr about how it's difficult to learn anything, and with languages I find it especially disheartening because everyone seems to take the matter very seriously, whereas I just want to go about it slowly and take tiny steps, but - well, I thin I've talked about that enough times.
But anyway, combining it with my nightly walk sounds good. I'm trying to do that thing where you keep track of how far you walk, and try to keep at it enough that eventually you walk the same distance as it would take to get from the Shire to Mount Doom. So far I'm... uh. 0.03% of the way to Rivendell. [/facepalm] But hopefully I'll keep at it. :D
Must admit, seeing The Hobbit at new year's made me want to re-read the book. And... maybe try to read Lord of the Rings again. I tried it once years ago, but I got bored halfway through the second book and didn't bother to try again.