only four more days until school. today we came back to our languages, to study. we had great success in learning the extra chapter of the japanese text (ie, chapter 5), and have pretty well memorized what we need to memorize and gotten the concepts down. perhaps not well enough for a chapter test tomorrow, but certainly well enough to take the next class. with greek, it wasn’t so easy. the text for this class diverges wildly from my old text, to the point that some things were introduced in this new text in chapter 2 that weren’t even in the old one up to chapter 12 (that was the chapter we got to in the first quarter.) i like the approach of the new one, but at the same time my old one is so cozy and small and friendly. i seem to have lost it, quite recently, the old text i mean, so i can’t compare as much as i want. but as far as i foggily recall, we did first, second, and third declensions, and the main present tense and the main imperfect tense.
this book seems to be going full throttle with all the tenses at once. which is fine, but it means that i don’t have the benefit of having memorized this already, sometime in the past.
Continue reading ’stop egoizing! you’re such a capitalist!’
Written on December 29, 2005 by kat.
well, it’s really a good thing we weren’t celebrating christmas this year, because at 3 o’clock christmas morning we were woken with stomach cramps that were the beginning of a miserable three-and-a-half day stomach flu. we’re still not entirely back to normal; but to eat without puking, and to have such mild cramps that they are ignorable – ah! that’s nice. to be honest, it’s really taken our mind off the problems some of us were having with wanting christmas so badly.
i’ve really never had such bad, certainly not such long-lasting, stomach cramps in my entire life. at times we were weeping and sweating with sheer pain. distraction was out of the freaking question.
we opened the gingerbread from wolferman’s, last night, and it was oh so very delectable. we still have two scones and a couple of mini english muffins to eat.
Continue reading ‘am i alive again yet?’
Written on December 24, 2005 by Uncategorized.
best (or at least, most fun) solstice present this year: maple sugar candy from upstate new york.
aeron’s dad should never get us any present that’s not made of maple sap.
this is the stuff that is too damn good to share.
i should write real things, but it’s too hard. life is really hard right now. so, i won’t.
yesterday was solstice. we cried a lot, shivered, drank orange juice with ice cream, ate wolferman’s, opened presents of winter clothes from our parents, rented a movie, cuddled with aeron. it was little. for some of us, too little; they cried and cried. and aeron had a migraine all day.
but still, we managed to squeeze some goodness out of the day. we bought a slice of cheesecake each from the dessert/chocolate store on broadway (dilettante’s?), and a very cheap $4 for both of us dinner from the chinese fast-food place next door (magic dragon). we rented the newer charlie and the chocolate factory and watched it with aeron. most importantly, we drank our orange-juice shakes that really make it a holiday.
we made them with orange and tangerine juice! that’s what the bottle says! aeron said, “did you mean to get no pulp?” because we really like pulp, but then we said “we didn’t notice the pulp level! it’s got tangerine juice!!” it was good. and we still have enough for more.
Continue reading ‘mostly materialism’
Written on December 17, 2005 by beth.
yes, the medium affects the content. yes, sometimes that can be excruciating, the silence, the avoidance. there’s no great solution, besides private .txt files i guess, or paper. and yes, i can sympathize. and our answer to the problem, even our perspective, is different from person to person, day to day.
but this is a boat i want to keep navigating. this is not something i want to take away from myself. i’m not talking in shoulds – yes, another journal entry inspired this, loves, but no, i’m not moralizing. just thinking. wondering whether to feel guilty, or something. all these old friends. maybe it would be easier to let go. maybe i have done so already. maybe i don’t really exist in the world except the much narrower Amazing Multiples one. that’s big enough anyway, right? two good friends, several acquaintances?
Continue reading ‘it’s lonely but it’s free’
find them if you can! we just put in a lot of journal-type things that we never got around to putting in here. or that we saved as draft and never published ever. we won’t, can’t, tell you where they are; they’re the sort of things that we couldn’t post even now if they would be right up top where everyone would see. some of them. but i think telling they’re there is a fun compromise.
the one from thursday hardly counts, this is just the first moment we’ve gotten around to uploading it.
so now we are still thinking about our journal, and working on the few more touches we have left to add. it’s kind of funny how we’ve been doing so very much work with it, and yet the journal pages themselves look almost identical, when you discard the shell of the surrounding design.
Continue reading ‘easter eggs…’
Written on December 16, 2005 by cynthia.
we upgraded movable type this morning, and it has some stuff to try to reduce comment spam. so if your comment gets erased or never goes through, please let me know? myriad – at – shiveringnaked – dot – org. we just don’t know how strong the filter is and how many comments are likely to get marked as junk.
oh… and in other new(s)… try clicking on an author’s image. i dare you.
Written on December 15, 2005 by cynthia.
there’s more i’m going to do with it. but there’s enough up that i can take a break. everything that was linked to before, is linked to. everything that used the old shiveringnaked.org design is using the new one. and it’s so friggin beautiful i could scream. innit?
comments, please. questions, suggestions. what’s the POINT of beauty if no one COMPliments you on it? if your monitor is 800×600 or smaller, i’m sorry. i know it must look horrible, but aeron convinced me that almost no one has that small of a resolution anymore.
heh. anyway, so coming up is a completely revamped tunneling – actually, it will look (hopefully) much the same. but i plan to upgrade to version 3 of mt and use categories, not authors, to denote who wrote an entry. nifty! and, coming up, are more coherent people/projects/support pages. when i feel like it.
Written on December 15, 2005 by cynthia.
i’m glad we brought our laptop to therapy. somehow i feel like i’m seeing what life will be like in the winter. maybe that’s because we got here too early. we should have taken the bus after this one, but for some reason we didn’t. the extra 12 minutes at home wasn’t worth it, i guess?
we have been working really hard at making it so claire doesn’t always have to be at the front. and it’s almost like poof she’s not! it’s really a vacation for her. i think she’s been inside. she likes to walk during the day on the island. some people like to walk at night more.
Continue reading ‘oh ruled his world’
we gotted wolferman’s from mommie and it’s really cool!! they’re like some kinds of fancy restaurants: they give you really really good food but not enough of it. wolferman’s, that is. we gotted two bags of english muffins (which is what they’re best at) and two bags of crumpets. and two scones, and a thing of mini english muffins, and gingerbread. and berry jam and “fruit spread” and cinnamon honey creme, which sounds better than it is. but anyway we are very happy and stuff because it is really cool and the box said “happy solstice!” it’s weird that solstice is so soon. claire and beth and them say we probably shouldn’t email or call mom to thank her unless we can pretend to be big.
Continue reading ‘lazy geese and the weather warm’
