I've rather unintentioally gravitated towards making this a friends-only journal. Most of my entries are locked to a specific part of my friends list, the people who I think would be interested in my ramblings, but if I know you, add me as a friend and I'll adjust the filter.

That is all.

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Friday night, I am sitting in Amy and Chelsea's room next door. Amy is currently taking Latin 102, and has her textbook out on her bed. I ask if I can use it to translate a line from a one-act that Andrew was in this weekend. She tells me to go for it. So, I go to my room to get a notebook and settle down with some verb charts. Chelsea walks in ( Read more... )

I think I am the only person who listens to French music while preparing for Japanese class and then goes off to work on a translation of an Italian song.

I am hopeless.

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Jonathan Larson is amazing ( Read more... )

I've been meaning to translate this one for awhile, ever since I plugged the title into my dictionary and realized that even though it's always written Por Tí Seré (You Raise Me Up), 'por tí seré' does not mean 'you raise me up' at all, and I found that deceptive. So I Googled 'You Raise Me Up' and found out that it's a Josh Groban song, which I ( Read more... )

It feels so good to be back ( Read more... )

So I'm having a little Italian phase. Don't mind me.

I decided to do Nella Fantasia today because the lyrics are really short and extremely repetitive. Extremely repetitive. It took me like ten minutes to translate. It's pretty, but I think the music really helps the words along, because it's so...redundant.

( I dream of hearts that are always free, like the clouds that fly )

Passerà came on my playlist today as I was cleaning my room, and I had a flashback moment to driving down Route 1 in Rehoboth last summer. This song is Delaware to me, and so I had to translate it. That, and I was kind of bored ( Read more... )

Meme time ( Read more... )

Meme stolen from muzhi_. I like them when they're short like this.

If I were..... a day of the week: Monday ( Read more... )