I just got email notification from the library that the dissertation I requested through Interlibrary Loan is there, waiting for me to check it out! I am so excited!!! I let out a little bit of a squeal when I read the email... I just can't wait to get my hands on it, read it and check out her translations!!! I was so close to exasparatedly ( Read more... )

I saw this meme on ZVEZDA'S journal ( Read more... )

So in this dissertation thing from Nizhny Novogorod, in her bibliography of translation to english, she had one work listed I had not come across earlier... *le gasp! hehe... so I set out to find it... and lord help me, seemed to be in a journal that did not exist! But I found the home society webpage... not so much of a help, but to confirm that ( Read more... )

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Friday night we had our closing ceremony for russian. I sang with the choir... so much fun. I really miss ruth's choir at st. michael's... and since I haven't really kept it up, my range has significantly diminished. I still cling to being a soprano, even though some of the notes don't quite come out like they used to!

I also recited a poem by ( Read more... )

This is simply amazing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN-eGOtBGbg

Can you believe some of this stuff? http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19475706/

Your Inner Pop Princess Is Kelly Clarkson
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You are a
Social Liberal
(65% permissive)

and an...
Economic Liberal
(16% permissive)

You are best described as a:

Socialist (16e/65s)

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Alright. It has been a really really really long time.

I'm going to go backwards though...

Yesterday, while working at Curves, one of the member, who I have not seen for a while, commented that I look like I have lost weight. I got the full weight and measurements done in April [again mid May, but havent' put them into the computer yet]. Between ( Read more... )