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Cake and Cordial: June 2010
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Wednesday, June 30, 2010. Apologise, I have been a little bit remiss in my blogging duties of late. This is probably due to the general malaise I’ve been feeling the past few weeks, a sort of persistent ennui which is very unlike my usual temperament. I think this condition is pretty common in Ireland these days. There is really high unemployment, which has left a lot of skilled and talented people with nothing to do except sit around the house all day drinking tea, eating digestive biscuits. And more on...
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Cake and Cordial: July 2010
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Wednesday, July 21, 2010. In Praise of a Rainy Day. It's practically an excuse to loll around and do nothing, and that is a-ok with me. My favourite things to watch on rainy days are usually old tv boxsets, which are practically the only dvds I own; favourites include Sherlock Holmes with Jeremy Brett. My personal favourite Holmes), and, major guilty pleasure territory, Sharpe. I lately managed to watch the entire Pride and Prejudice series. You know, the one with Colin Firth. I don't know if my precipit...
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Noun endings. | The Blotted Line
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I’ve been studying Russian for the past year — I took an intro-level course during my undergrad, and am now using Nicholas J. Brown’s. New Penguin Russian Course. So today marks the day that I was able to write down complete sets of noun endings for masculine, feminine, and neuter nouns in all their configurations (that’s 156 endings! Should probably study pronoun and adjective endings more extensively though. Posted in I heart grammar forever. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Being t...
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Newer posts →. 8216;You are my least bad cat’. A thing I say to Lady Jane at least once a day. Posted in Cat-lady adventures. Tagged Lady Jane is my only good cat. You would think Cynthia would be the least bad cat but she is so bad. My mother was visiting and she took one look at Lucy and said ‘I think she’s getting fluffier’. Posted in Cat-lady adventures. She also said 'she looks like a poodle'. Posted in Cat-lady adventures. Guess who didn’t do any stretching today and now has a hurty back/knee?
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This week in books. | The Blotted Line
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I am still trying to learn…. Working on a proposal for a new project… →. This week in books. So many books this week! I’m reading lots of young adult literature for teaching prep. But also for fun. Shall we? Alexie, Sherman. The. Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. Illus Ellen Forney. New York: Little, Brown and Co, 2007. New York: Yearling, 2001. We’ve all read this before, right? Harrison Withers’s cats tho’! Lord and Lady Bunny — Almost Royalty. Keeper of the Isis Light. Le Guin, Ursula K.
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I am still trying to learn… | The Blotted Line
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This week in books. →. I am still trying to learn…. The rules for the genitive plural in Russian. For some reason it has lots of variations and exceptions and I can’t really keep them straight in my head. My course book says that a lot of native Russian speakers have to look up the genitive plural though, so maybe I should stop trying? Posted in I heart grammar forever. Tagged the genitive plural is my nemesis. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Email (Address never made public).
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Preface: Lucy had an upset stomach yesterday. Which lead to the following:. Lucy: [eats a bunch of food]. Lucy, half an hour later: [throws up a hairball bunch of food, walks away]. Lucy, 15 seconds later [circles back, sees regurgitated food] food. Human: [cleaning up hairball regurgitated food] Ugh, gross. Don’t eat that! Lucy: [stands by, disgruntled, while regurgitated food is taken away]. Human [throws down cloth to wipe the floor afterwards, leaves to get soap/water]. Human: WHY ARE YOU SO GROSS?
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Cake and Cordial: September 2010
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Friday, September 3, 2010. Songs To Feel A Bit Sad To. I have a post in the works about delicious, delicious food but in the meantime I've been procrastinating by making this mixtape for the the Poppytalk Mixtape Contest. I was also inspired by Sarah at Pink of Perfection's September mixtape. About her autumn melancholy. It got me thinking about how the sound of an anguished female voice somehow always gets to me, especially as the weather cools and cozy sweater season approaches. Posted by Gina Alderman.
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Cake and Cordial: October 2010
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Friday, October 29, 2010. London Calling, part 2! I’m sorry if you thought that you had been abandoned by us in the past few months, you would be forgiven for thinking so. We have not disappeared, but have both been going through some major life changes. On my part, this involved a move to London, England. Home of red telephone boxes, double decker buses, pie and mash shops, and y’know, the Queen. Seriously, their chicken soup tastes like your Grandmother’s homemade recipe) really is a dream-come-t...
