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kaberett1. I got home to find a Terrifying Letter From The DWP... letting me know that my DLA's been autorenewed through to 2016 without me needing to do anything about it. :-)
2. I am now down to two half-written poems in the stack - one's a villanelle and will be hard; one might grow up to be a sonnet but is probably going to just be my usual style of thing.
3. Domestic bliss: doing the washing up while P curled up on the sofa with my complete works of Donaghy (he of Machines and Midriver), dipping in and out and reading me bits.
4. Swedennn. Snow and sunsets and AMINALS and RIDICULOUS FOOD (the ridiculous round thing with the whole in the middle, of which I have eaten approx my own bodyweight with butter and cloudberry jam over the past few days; ditto pepparkakor; ditto ajvar; I am a predictable human with predictable tastes) and exciting new food! Semla were not a thing I had previously consumed. (hahahahaha yes I win "simnel" is indeed finest wheat flour, semolina, which means semla is too, surprise)
5. Poking around etymonline.com after triangulating through all our mutual language; the -lic of garlic is in fact the same word as leek, and the Swedish for onion and (with modifiers) misc allium, and the German for misc allium. (Spem in allium, etc etc.) We were pleased.
6. Being helpful at my mother. :-) I mean, it is deeply weird to be grown-up enough to be helpful when it comes to casting an eye over CVs etc, but pleasant! Also she e-mailed me about pirates (and did not give me any updates on the rugby).
7. ... Elementary, though, okay. ELEMENTARY. SHOW.
8. Useful work done! Retweaked abstract (hopefully I'll be able to submit it tomorrow) for baby's first talk; did a quick blitz on an area I wasn't terribly clear on the specifics of and needed to be, wrote myself a summary, and have some questions for discussion with my supervisor; did an extremely sketchy first pass on the thesis outline I'm required to submit for my 21-month assessment, and slightly to my astonishment realised that it... continues to approximately make sense?
9. Mush. (SUCH TEENAGE.)
10. I am really really enjoying hair-adornment in the shape of tulmas courtesy ofkhalinche - they're beaded, and I reckon they're kind of like blue roses and P reckons they're kind of like a peacock and either way they make managing my hair marginally easier when it's hanging down in a braid, and are very very pleasing when I manage to arrange them either side of a bun. Sensory misc. Yes. :-)
2. I am now down to two half-written poems in the stack - one's a villanelle and will be hard; one might grow up to be a sonnet but is probably going to just be my usual style of thing.
3. Domestic bliss: doing the washing up while P curled up on the sofa with my complete works of Donaghy (he of Machines and Midriver), dipping in and out and reading me bits.
4. Swedennn. Snow and sunsets and AMINALS and RIDICULOUS FOOD (the ridiculous round thing with the whole in the middle, of which I have eaten approx my own bodyweight with butter and cloudberry jam over the past few days; ditto pepparkakor; ditto ajvar; I am a predictable human with predictable tastes) and exciting new food! Semla were not a thing I had previously consumed. (hahahahaha yes I win "simnel" is indeed finest wheat flour, semolina, which means semla is too, surprise)
5. Poking around etymonline.com after triangulating through all our mutual language; the -lic of garlic is in fact the same word as leek, and the Swedish for onion and (with modifiers) misc allium, and the German for misc allium. (Spem in allium, etc etc.) We were pleased.
6. Being helpful at my mother. :-) I mean, it is deeply weird to be grown-up enough to be helpful when it comes to casting an eye over CVs etc, but pleasant! Also she e-mailed me about pirates (and did not give me any updates on the rugby).
7. ... Elementary, though, okay. ELEMENTARY. SHOW.
8. Useful work done! Retweaked abstract (hopefully I'll be able to submit it tomorrow) for baby's first talk; did a quick blitz on an area I wasn't terribly clear on the specifics of and needed to be, wrote myself a summary, and have some questions for discussion with my supervisor; did an extremely sketchy first pass on the thesis outline I'm required to submit for my 21-month assessment, and slightly to my astonishment realised that it... continues to approximately make sense?
9. Mush. (SUCH TEENAGE.)
10. I am really really enjoying hair-adornment in the shape of tulmas courtesy of
khalinche - they're beaded, and I reckon they're kind of like blue roses and P reckons they're kind of like a peacock and either way they make managing my hair marginally easier when it's hanging down in a braid, and are very very pleasing when I manage to arrange them either side of a bun. Sensory misc. Yes. :-)
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Date: 2015-02-10 12:52 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2015-02-10 01:12 am (UTC)(I am also massively jealous of the Swedish Mini-Break. I'd love to visit at some point.)
~K.
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Date: 2015-02-10 01:25 am (UTC)Yay for remaining PIP-less!
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Date: 2015-02-10 06:46 am (UTC)Yay for DLA autorenewal!!!!
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Date: 2015-02-10 05:15 pm (UTC)5. lololol at spem in allium.
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Date: 2015-02-10 05:31 pm (UTC)[by which I mean my mum's been doing it since she was my age and probably longer, and probably some of her family did similar...]
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Date: 2015-02-10 05:37 pm (UTC)(It was GREAT not least because company; I will post pics at some point during the Babysitting The Mass Spec.)
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Date: 2015-02-10 05:40 pm (UTC)I actually had 0 idea how to go about looking up the etymology of Swedish, so on the basis that "simnel" and "semla" were clearly the same word I confirmed that "simnel" is also the semolina-word and lo, I was happy. ;) (This is some of why I am so resentful of the price you pay for rye flour in this country - it is peasant food, and bread not made out of it is such a luxury that you specify it has a high wheat/semolina content, so having rye being sold as a prestige good makes my head explode.)
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