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[athenaltena]

So I had a dream a few nights back where I was in Japan again and had to speak it, and it was a pretty stressful experience. Especially since I kept lapsing into Russian. Needless to say, hilarity ensued.

That part about crossing the languages doesn't actually happen in real life, amazingly enough, since I think the two languages are filed in different parts of my brain. It also helps that I tend to "see" the words written in hiragana/cyrillic respectively in my head as I'm speaking them, and they look pretty different so there's little opportunity to confuse them. That was actually the reason I forced myself to learn the hiragana rather than use romaji (words spelled out phonetically in English characters). It also means that sometimes when I'm trying to remember it I "write it out" in the air which probably looks weird to people watching me.

There's going to be the big fireworks thing tonight on the Esplanade, but I've been there, done that, and the last time I went to that I spent hours trying to find a decent place to stand and was reminded of why I don't like crowds. I'm also entirely surprised that I didn't get mugged last year since there were about a dozen people who did. And of course my idiot neighbors will probably set off their own fireworks so I won't miss much.

I'm also glad I locked in our electricity rate at $35 a month since I've been using the AC so much, albeit on the energy saver mode (i.e. it turns itself off when it doesn't need to be on full blast). D told me about that, and knowing how high the bills could get in the winter it was probably a good idea. Basically if I do go over that amount they'll bill me at the end of the year.

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[ar-wahan.livejournal.com]

We're staying home tonight, too. And not even a cookout, since Jonathan's parents had a huge cookout last night, and only three couple (plus Jonathan's sister and one of her ballet teachers)! So we actually got to talk, which was lovely.

Saw Stan at the Amherst July 4 parade. (I was there doing detective work about the Shutesbury parade, hoping the same unidentified antique truck showed up, and it did, so I found out who was in it.) Stan says he plans on joining us next week.

[le-section-8.livejournal.com]

Be advised that writing foreign-looking sigils in the aether may be interpreted as sorcery in some parts and will summon 2d6 cacodemons in others.

All I remember about Japanese is that kuruma looks like a car. Vroom.

[iamduvet.livejournal.com]

I don't have go far, the complex across the street has been shooting them off for the last few days.
And yes, they're illegal...