tenha paciência
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nnozomiDaily life: A little more work than in the last couple of weeks, mostly academic, which may mean that universities/academic journals are getting started again or only that people hope they will. Daily bulletins from my mom on her Shakespeare readthrough. Azaleas everywhere when I go out.
Music: Elis Regina! My dad fell in love with her singing when I was a kid and I grew up listening to her, wrote my senior thesis on her, still love her to this day. "Amor Até o Fim" is fantastic and so is "Aguas de Março" (to brighten your day, check out either of these versions with Elis duetting with Tom Jobim), but this week I've been listening to "Cartomante" a lot, which makes me cry, but in a good way. "…porque na verdade, eu te quero vivo / Tenha paciência, Deus está contigo, / Deus está conosco, até o pescoço…"
Books: Mm. Reading yes, but not anything I'm in the mood to ramble about. I should go back and reread some of the books on my Japanese shelf; with no time on trains I never get any Japanese reading done. Maybe some virtual travel with Miyawaki Shunzo and his train books, or Professor Hara likewise.
Chinese: Well, I opened a Chinese Guardian fic the other day just to see if I could read any of it (basically no, just little bits) and then let Chrome do its automatic translation thing, which got me bad machine-translated Japanese. I couldn't figure out why it kept talking about starfish (ヒトデ), until I remembered how they're written in characters: 海星.
Still, I've gotten to the point where (especially since, thanks to Japanese, I can understand more than I can say) I can have little Chinese text-chats with my Taiwanese friend P; she was telling me about taking her daughter H for a flu shot, and I said 很疼阿 and realized with some horror that I'd learned that from Zhao Yunlan in the kitchen scene... (Little H was very pleased with herself for only crying 一点点, good girl you.)
Writing: I broke 20K, meaning I should be about a quarter done, theoretically. The main three have solved a technical problem they didn't know they had and now have to figure out how to reproduce it; meanwhile, geopolitics and love interest are ready to appear.
Be safe and well.
Music: Elis Regina! My dad fell in love with her singing when I was a kid and I grew up listening to her, wrote my senior thesis on her, still love her to this day. "Amor Até o Fim" is fantastic and so is "Aguas de Março" (to brighten your day, check out either of these versions with Elis duetting with Tom Jobim), but this week I've been listening to "Cartomante" a lot, which makes me cry, but in a good way. "…porque na verdade, eu te quero vivo / Tenha paciência, Deus está contigo, / Deus está conosco, até o pescoço…"
Books: Mm. Reading yes, but not anything I'm in the mood to ramble about. I should go back and reread some of the books on my Japanese shelf; with no time on trains I never get any Japanese reading done. Maybe some virtual travel with Miyawaki Shunzo and his train books, or Professor Hara likewise.
Chinese: Well, I opened a Chinese Guardian fic the other day just to see if I could read any of it (basically no, just little bits) and then let Chrome do its automatic translation thing, which got me bad machine-translated Japanese. I couldn't figure out why it kept talking about starfish (ヒトデ), until I remembered how they're written in characters: 海星.
Still, I've gotten to the point where (especially since, thanks to Japanese, I can understand more than I can say) I can have little Chinese text-chats with my Taiwanese friend P; she was telling me about taking her daughter H for a flu shot, and I said 很疼阿 and realized with some horror that I'd learned that from Zhao Yunlan in the kitchen scene... (Little H was very pleased with herself for only crying 一点点, good girl you.)
Writing: I broke 20K, meaning I should be about a quarter done, theoretically. The main three have solved a technical problem they didn't know they had and now have to figure out how to reproduce it; meanwhile, geopolitics and love interest are ready to appear.
Be safe and well.
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Date: 2020-04-30 10:16 am (UTC)Oh, nice!
You too! ♥
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Date: 2020-05-01 01:56 am (UTC)♡
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Date: 2020-04-30 01:31 pm (UTC)Hee! :D
And congrats on the writing progress!
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Date: 2020-05-01 01:56 am (UTC)and thanks! Still working.
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Date: 2020-04-30 02:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-05-01 01:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-05-02 06:19 pm (UTC)What I actually loved to read was the BL cnovel I Ship My Adversary and Me. It is hilarious, and easy to read because it's split into wonderfully tiny little snippets. And it is half-translated, which soothed me when I just couldn't do it anymore, so I could at least reread some of it in English.
Chinese: https://www.gongzicp.com/novel-11051.html
Translation: https://blackbox-tl.com/novels/ismm/
I broke 20K
That's an awesome wordcount! \o/