I could smack the Windsors today. I'm not much bothered by the royals one way or the other most weeks, but the scheduling of The Big Thing That Happened Today has managed to fall right in line with Last Big Essay Deadlines Of The Year for me, as well as the point a couple days ago at which I was stressed to my wits' ends by other issues that are ( Read more... )

So my dilemma over volunteering + 20 hours per week of jobbing has been taken care of.

( you can probably guess what's coming, so I'll just leave it under a cut and move on to happier things )

HELL YES.
I am gonna need me some leather gloves >|3

And to get dem gloves, I'm gonna need me a jorb. Altho I gotta say, 45 quid (~70 bucks) cash-in-hand for three hours of sitting still? Another hell-yes. Modeling may yet be able to let me pay my way back home via plane when I visit the States in the summer, especially if I keep meeting awesome- ( Read more... )

So housemate's granmama is moving back in today after being abroad for more than three months. She is an utter neat-freak, so we're making best efforts to pretend we have been keeping a spic 'n' span home while she's been away. I did up the kitchen today, and it's the cleanest it's been in...probably the past three months (<.Problem with cleaning ( Read more... )

dear School of Public Policy: eff y'all and your oh-my-sweet-JAYzuss persnickety assignment turn-in procedures. I cannot deal with you any more this night. You'll get my ridiculously-low-word-limited electronic copy tomorrow and not before ( Read more... )

Super Awesome Law Prof not only helped me get my head together on the new topic; when I asked if she knew of any faculty who'd be likely supervisors, she immediately said to put her down because she's interested to see where this goes. That is the best encouragement I could have hoped for. And tho her participation is dependent upon the numbers of ( Read more... )

Aaand there goes any remaining illusion of sticking to my essay word-count goals for tonight: The Euphemism Generator

Of course, back in my day we called it punishing the ocelot

A) If x = shit you gotta get done and y = number of incidental distractions that crop up during the day, for every increase in x over the value of 2, y increases explonentially* towards ∞

2) Paintballs hurt like a mofo :|

三）There is ALWAYS time for a shared meal. If there isn't time, you reach into the squishy underbelly of your day-planner and ( Read more... )

This term my class load is exactly half what it was when I first started teaching at Tinytown's senior high. The BoE is none the wiser because I still have the bare minimum of eight classes listed on my weekly schedule; in reality I am teaching for five periods out of every five-day span. Three first-year English classes (same course, different ( Read more... )

What the what now?

慎む　(つつしむ)　v. - to do in moderation; to refrain (from overdoing); to abstain
Examples:
彼女は酒を謹んでいる。
She abstains from drinking. (Okay, good for her.)

彼がおしゃべりを慎もうと言った。
He said he would keep from chatting. (That's nice.)

たばこは、お慎みください。
Kindly refrain from smoking. (With you so far...)

田中さん！殿方と共同生活してるのよ！ノーパンは慎みなさい！
Miss Tanaka! You are living ( Read more... )