I should have thought of Old English, or Middle English could be useful also.
My sister married her high school sweetheart and they are very happy. Similarly to you guys, they had one break of less than a year once when they were in college. But that's it. When I was young and restless, it seemed stodgy to me. Now it seems like the most romantic thing in the world.
40. What’s your life motto? Be the change you want to see in the world. --It really, really shows. One of the many things I love about you.
I did it yesterday and didn't post it, then went to post it today and realized that some of the answers were no longer correct and so went back and changed it. Also totally me. OCD, much?? :D
I should have thought of Old English, or Middle English could be useful also.
I am perfectly fine with reading Chaucerian ME, but it is definitely a goal of mine to read Gawain (my favorite Middle English work and sparring with Beowulf for favorite medieval, full stop) in the original language.
I've studied OE but haven't practiced it hardly at all but doing so damned much Beowulf stuff I've actually picked up on a good bit just from being exposed to it on almost a daily basis.
Similarly to you guys, they had one break of less than a year once when they were in college.
It was a hard transition. I mean, we were practically kids together, and then we had to become adults together and simultaneously. For me, it taught me that the grass is not greener on the other side of the fence; it is brown and pissed on.
I studied Old English and I remembered some of it (but forgot most). Used it a little when writing Rohan-centered things--will have to mess with it again when finishing that novel. It is a different language.
Middle English is surprisingly easy if one ignores the spelling and tries reading aloud. Some of the English docs I've tried to read contemporary to Richard III feels more like Middle English/Chaucer's than like Shakespeare's English--another big shift in the works right at that time and shortly thereafter. Some classes would be fun.
This made me all whimpery-smiley-happy. Thank you!
I count on you to do the stuff I am too tired to do (just kidding that would be so unfair). I am tired and thinking of making a big reveal of my actual age on my birthday next month. I have never said it in fandom that I know. Even people who know I am older than sin and to whom I have hinted broadly seem to guess younger.
I am on a Facebook group for students at Mythgard/Signum, and a few weeks ago, someone posed the question there of which language current students would most like to see offered next in the language center. (Currently, they have Latin, Spanish, and French.) Old English seemed to be winning overwhelming, at least based on casually following the conversation as comments popped up in my email. It got my vote. Old Norse seemed to be in second, which would be my second choice as well. So I'm hoping that a class might manifest soon ... maybe this summer? (That would be excellent, as I could take it right before starting my thesis.)
Even people who know I am older than sin and to whom I have hinted broadly seem to guess younger.I think I know the first number but not the second! Or maybe I'm among those who'd be guessing low! :D I'm terrible with guessing age. Age is so stupid anyway. (I know it's easy for me to say as a thirty-something!) I have friends who could be my parents and find them easier to relate to than some people my own age.
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You're so fortunate that you ended up married to your first love (despite the sometimes rocky road between the first date and the actual marriage). I have had the honor of knowing you (over cyber space) for several years now and can frankly say that you are a unique, intelligent, and fascinating person who I hope to meet in RL some day. Drive carefully on your way home from Liberty.
Thank you! We're back. :) And guess what? The truck started, but the snowblower didn't ... :^|
I am so very grateful for Bobby. Sometimes I think it must be a dream. He is ridiculously good to me (and for all I may seem here, trust and believe that I don't always deserve it!) and an incredibly kind person. And hot! :D
The time we were apart got us over the hump between being kids together and growing into adults together. I haven't looked back since.
#1. I bellydance and have progressed to the point where I needed some super strength in those muscles! :D Aside from dancing and practicing belly rolls and stuff whenever I think no one is looking, I do the ab machine at the gym where you basically do a sit-up while pressing against weight; I do three sets of 12 at 100 lb/45 kg. And I do three sets of 50 on the ab coaster at max weight (35 lb/15 kg, I think?)
I pulled my piriformis muscle earlier in the year and so am just getting back fully into strength training.
#40. It's my absolute favorite saying. I think it really makes a difference to try to live it.
Oh that sounds awesome. I love bellydancing - watching. I doubt I could coordinate enough to do it without spraining something.
My yoga teacher sometimes has classes... coincidentally I was thinking of giving it a try, once the March madness is over. Hope no one around me gets hurt. lol
It's actually a very ground dance form, i.e., low impact on the joints and unlikely to result in injuries. Yes, this is me encouraging you to try it! :) I started it while I was having joint pain issues. I have been a freestyle rollerskater since I was a kid, and my body just couldn't bear the higher impact of vigorous dance/skating.
I love it. I'm in my third year now and can now do things I didn't even know were possible, like move ab groups separately! :D It's good exercise and more fun than the gym! (Says she who is still in her pajamas after trying to muster the energy to go to the gym for the past three hours ... :D)
Stuarts! :D On my mom's dad side, we're related to the Boleyns. Family history has always fascinated me. Your students in that one class sound utterly adorable, wanting to reclaim the castle for you. :D
Old English is an awesome language to want to be fluent in.
The students who wanted to reclaim Stirling Castle for me were big lugs of seniors; a few centuries earlier, and they probably would have been able to put up a good fight for it! :D I keep in touch with two of them even now; they were among my favorite students.
My favorite tidbit about the Stuarts is from, I think, my Norton anthology of early English and says something about James VI/James I being a somewhat creepy fellow "always fiddling about his codpiece." HA. My family's branch of the tree sprung from that root (ouch, that's gross, sorry ...) is mechanically minded, outdoorsy, tall, wears a lot of flannel, farts a lot, kills their own meat, and sits out in the rain at cookouts drinking cheap beer because "shit don't melt." (I actually adore that side of my family, even though all those things are also true. ;)
OE is immensely useful to me for my academic stuff. I will have to master it. But I do love the sound of it (I swoon whenever they start speaking OE on Vikings), and Bobby and I indulge the fantasy of being able to speak
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I should have thought of Old English, or Middle English could be useful also.
My sister married her high school sweetheart and they are very happy. Similarly to you guys, they had one break of less than a year once when they were in college. But that's it. When I was young and restless, it seemed stodgy to me. Now it seems like the most romantic thing in the world.
40. What’s your life motto?
Be the change you want to see in the world. --It really, really shows. One of the many things I love about you.
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I should have thought of Old English, or Middle English could be useful also.
I am perfectly fine with reading Chaucerian ME, but it is definitely a goal of mine to read Gawain (my favorite Middle English work and sparring with Beowulf for favorite medieval, full stop) in the original language.
I've studied OE but haven't practiced it hardly at all but doing so damned much Beowulf stuff I've actually picked up on a good bit just from being exposed to it on almost a daily basis.
Similarly to you guys, they had one break of less than a year once when they were in college.
It was a hard transition. I mean, we were practically kids together, and then we had to become adults together and simultaneously. For me, it taught me that the grass is not greener on the other side of the fence; it is brown and pissed on.
It really, really shows. One of ( ... )
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Middle English is surprisingly easy if one ignores the spelling and tries reading aloud. Some of the English docs I've tried to read contemporary to Richard III feels more like Middle English/Chaucer's than like Shakespeare's English--another big shift in the works right at that time and shortly thereafter. Some classes would be fun.
This made me all whimpery-smiley-happy. Thank you!
I count on you to do the stuff I am too tired to do (just kidding that would be so unfair). I am tired and thinking of making a big reveal of my actual age on my birthday next month. I have never said it in fandom that I know. Even people who know I am older than sin and to whom I have hinted broadly seem to guess younger.
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Even people who know I am older than sin and to whom I have hinted broadly seem to guess younger.I think I know the first number but not the second! Or maybe I'm among those who'd be guessing low! :D I'm terrible with guessing age. Age is so stupid anyway. (I know it's easy for me to say as a thirty-something!) I have friends who could be my parents and find them easier to relate to than some people my own age. ( ... )
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I am so very grateful for Bobby. Sometimes I think it must be a dream. He is ridiculously good to me (and for all I may seem here, trust and believe that I don't always deserve it!) and an incredibly kind person. And hot! :D
The time we were apart got us over the hump between being kids together and growing into adults together. I haven't looked back since.
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#40 - I often say that to myself too.
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I pulled my piriformis muscle earlier in the year and so am just getting back fully into strength training.
#40. It's my absolute favorite saying. I think it really makes a difference to try to live it.
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My yoga teacher sometimes has classes... coincidentally I was thinking of giving it a try, once the March madness is over. Hope no one around me gets hurt. lol
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I love it. I'm in my third year now and can now do things I didn't even know were possible, like move ab groups separately! :D It's good exercise and more fun than the gym! (Says she who is still in her pajamas after trying to muster the energy to go to the gym for the past three hours ... :D)
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Old English is an awesome language to want to be fluent in.
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My favorite tidbit about the Stuarts is from, I think, my Norton anthology of early English and says something about James VI/James I being a somewhat creepy fellow "always fiddling about his codpiece." HA. My family's branch of the tree sprung from that root (ouch, that's gross, sorry ...) is mechanically minded, outdoorsy, tall, wears a lot of flannel, farts a lot, kills their own meat, and sits out in the rain at cookouts drinking cheap beer because "shit don't melt." (I actually adore that side of my family, even though all those things are also true. ;)
OE is immensely useful to me for my academic stuff. I will have to master it. But I do love the sound of it (I swoon whenever they start speaking OE on Vikings), and Bobby and I indulge the fantasy of being able to speak ( ... )
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