Thu, 07 Apr 2011 00:37:13 GMT

Last night I read about plate tectonics. Today I made a map, starting with the plates so I could get the landmasses in the right place. Then I got distracted and got it wrong anyway, but it's a decent enough map. Although I splotched a lot inking it in. Nothing which can't be fixed with Tippex and a razor blade. I'm trying to tell my perfectionist self *not* to start all over again a third time, and to just go ahead and add in mountains and volcanoes.

I am seriously thinking about buying an Ursula Vernon original piece. She very rarely does something which I don't like.

I stayed up very late tonight watching My Little Ponies - Friendship is Magical. I looked it up on Know Your Meme because MLP gifs were turning up on various comms, decided to have a look at episode one on YouTube and became interested in it as something lighthearted and fun to watch. I have *no idea* why it's become so popular with 18-34 yo males but now I'm enjoying it too. There's plot and humour and decent 80s-style artwork and even a Benny Hill chase in Episode 3. I also now have a strong urge to hunt out Powerpuff Girls DVDs.

I need to get back to learning languages before I lose all the ground I gained this month. I haven't lost interest; I just forget and then it gets to be too late in the day to learn (the longer I am awake, usually the more headache I have and the less I can concentrate). Irish Gaelic's a total sod to get the hang of, because the literal meaning of the words is so unlike how they translate to English phrases, so you can't take bits of basic sentences and bang them together in new ways to make a new basic sentence like you can with Spanish or French or German or Italian. And that's before you get down to the tenses apparently changing depending not only on how many people there are, but also what they're doing, where they're doing it and whether they're likely to do it again. With French and Spanish, I advance slowly but do seem to actually be learning. Irish, I have to start all over again from scratch if I so much as go and make a cup of tea. I keep going back though, because I love trying to guess what to say and then clicking the little button to see if I got it right. It's very much Language Learning for Gamers.

There's an allotment tea party on Sunday and a game next Saturday so I could be unusually social this month. I was really touched to find out L has missed me being there. I've missed going too. I explained about being housebound most of the time, so if I can't go, she'll drop off the stuff I left behind last year.

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