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The secret to running is make your self go even when yo don't want to, but ya rain is a killer.

Yeah, power walking or swimming is a lot easier on your knees.

Spent a good hour or so tonight watching Calculated's Moonkin PoV and commentary videos for raid fights. The commentary is only on the heroic versions, but from what I can tell there's not a lot of difference between normal and heroic modes. Just some additional abilities that make the fight more difficult. Rotation and such looks like it's about the same. They were really useful, I think I have a better idea of what I'm supposed to do to maximize dps on fights.

Wow, I totally fail at English. Hindbær is raspberry, not strawberry. Strawberries are called jordbær.

Once I get a new webcam, we totally should. My last one broke. D:



The script is what killed me when I was trying to learn Japanese. Way too many kanji--I was out sick for a month and was just way too far behind to catch up. >.< I couldn't even fathom learning Chinese, which has no syllabic alphabet to fall back on if necessary.

Seriously, lol? Hiragana and katakana are the easy ones. :P Only one single syllable attached to them, and no individual meanings to learn.

With kanji, each one has 2-5 readings (sometimes more) with it's own definition as well. >.<

And these often... make no sense.

Take "Japan" for instance. It's "nihon."

Ni is the kanji for sun and Hon is the kanji for book.

Plus, the kanji ni (日) and the kanji hon　(本) both have 5 strokes. The hiragana ni has 3, ho has 4 and n has 1. にほん So it actually takes more time to write.

Of course, this is a stupid example. But once you get to the kanji with 18 strokes, it's no longer fun--it's super annoying to have to write them instead of the hiragana they represent, which would take 1-4 strokes.

I'm tired. 7 year old kiddies are really cute but it's exhausting to work with them. So many scenarios where I'm not sure what to do and that just kills me.

It's not too difficult since they were fascinated by what I was doing and there was a teacher with each group who made sure it didn't devolve into complete and utter chaos. I just suck with chaotic new social situations where I don't know how to behave which means that I'm absolutely exhausted now.

Edited, May 19th 2011 4:36pm by Aethien

Teenagers are harder to interact with, though!

Well put, and so true. They can actually be more childish sometimes. :S

It wasn't really so bad, just a lot of repetition. The hardest part was the speaking, that roller-coaster ride of tones was a pain in the butt.

I always assumed that the reason they don't come with a manual is because you'd need a new version of the manual every 3 months.

That and the fact you're one of those amazingly brilliant people too.

I wish I had a talent with languages, but I can barely manage to speak English correctly. >.<

My brother (a Spanish teacher) is the linguist in the family--he has a huge gift when it comes to accents and dialects. He visited Spain a year or two ago, and by the end of the first or second day, had to convince locals that he was actually from the US, because he had already tailored his speech to suit their customs.

I'm jealous. I'm crap when it comes to accents. I can learn the grammatical forms and memorize the vocabulary easily enough--reading and writing aren't that difficult. But I can't speak any language well. :(