Dreams redux, whining, and 聊聊天
Apr. 15th, 2021 04:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nnozomi・Many thanks for useful and interesting dream-related comments on my last post; I really love it that I can post some idle linguistic curiosity and immediately get responses in TEN different languages. Results: “have dreams” in English, Swedish, Polish, and German, “see dreams” in Japanese, Russian and Finnish, “do/make dreams” in Chinese, French, and Italian, “dream dreams” in Icelandic and Korean, and other variations in Russian, Polish, and Spanish! Good grief. I’m fascinated by the variation within language families, which I wouldn’t have expected.
・Whining: Japan is such a fucking mess right now in corona terms, my city especially. If I see one more elderly person strolling around without a mask on, I might scream.
・I’ve had very little work this week, mostly because of the new fiscal/academic year, but it’s hard not to feel that I’ve somehow offended the work gods (yes, I can be kind of abrasive in my work personality from time to time, but I don’t think I said anything particularly obnoxious recently...?). I worked a lot in February and March, a week or three without much in April won’t matter, but it makes me feel extremely at loose ends. The smart thing would be to say “fuck work until it comes in” and do something boring but useful (sorting out papers, etc. etc.) or interesting and personal (Yuriko, or the rest of the books-I-want-to-translate stack). sigh
・Fannish: I was watching one of Liu Chang’s livestreams, this one dating from last summer when the Lost Tomb thing started showing; in honor of which he was wearing Liu Sang’s sharp suit and had invited most of the main cast to join in via a Zoom-type thing. Bonus unexpected Long-ge! Without C or E subtitles I could only follow bits, but the general sense from Zhu Yilong was “大家好，我是朱一龙，I play Wu Xie...um...what else should I say?”, on brand.
・The other day’s complaint about mismatched musical tastes aside, my brain seems to like coming up with songs for MDZS/CQL characters; one of the songs I listen to on my morning run is “Nightswimming,” which somehow brings to mind post-canon Jiang Cheng for me.
・Photos: Several flowers I don’t know by name (including one that looks like a transformed butterfly) and some lilacs, ubiquitous where I grew up and much rarer (and much earlier-blooming) here; but the fragrance is the same. Also a really fancy city manhole, a spring turtle, and, well, the last photo speaks for itself.
Be safe and well.
・Whining: Japan is such a fucking mess right now in corona terms, my city especially. If I see one more elderly person strolling around without a mask on, I might scream.
・I’ve had very little work this week, mostly because of the new fiscal/academic year, but it’s hard not to feel that I’ve somehow offended the work gods (yes, I can be kind of abrasive in my work personality from time to time, but I don’t think I said anything particularly obnoxious recently...?). I worked a lot in February and March, a week or three without much in April won’t matter, but it makes me feel extremely at loose ends. The smart thing would be to say “fuck work until it comes in” and do something boring but useful (sorting out papers, etc. etc.) or interesting and personal (Yuriko, or the rest of the books-I-want-to-translate stack). sigh
・Fannish: I was watching one of Liu Chang’s livestreams, this one dating from last summer when the Lost Tomb thing started showing; in honor of which he was wearing Liu Sang’s sharp suit and had invited most of the main cast to join in via a Zoom-type thing. Bonus unexpected Long-ge! Without C or E subtitles I could only follow bits, but the general sense from Zhu Yilong was “大家好，我是朱一龙，I play Wu Xie...um...what else should I say?”, on brand.
・The other day’s complaint about mismatched musical tastes aside, my brain seems to like coming up with songs for MDZS/CQL characters; one of the songs I listen to on my morning run is “Nightswimming,” which somehow brings to mind post-canon Jiang Cheng for me.
・Photos: Several flowers I don’t know by name (including one that looks like a transformed butterfly) and some lilacs, ubiquitous where I grew up and much rarer (and much earlier-blooming) here; but the fragrance is the same. Also a really fancy city manhole, a spring turtle, and, well, the last photo speaks for itself.
Be safe and well.
