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Interests

Today we are supposed to discuss our interests. Since I’m not particularly interested in að dansa or að iþrotta (sports) I looked up the things I was interested in. You’ve already learned the term for puppet from me, so here’s a new one. Ég hef áhuga á vísindaskáldskapum. Translation: I am interested in science-fiction. [audio:sciencefiction.mp3]

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W, X, Y, and Z

Ha ha! Take that, Icelandic language. I’ve been working with a pocket dictionary and asked my teacher to recommend a more comprehensive one, which I picked up on the way home from class yesterday. Last night while doing my homework, I discovered that my brand-new dictionary was missing WXYZ and most of U in the

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My day in Icelandic

For homework last night, we had to write about our normal day. Needless to say, most of the words I needed were not in the normal lesson… I have no idea if any of my declinations are right; conjugations I feel pretty good about, it’s all those darn declining nouns and adjectives that make life

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The Viking Pirate

Avast! Vikings were sea-farin’ plunderers, so for TLAPD, I’ve recorded a choice phrase in Icelandic. Ég er sjóræningi, þu lítilmótlegur gamalreyndur sjómaður. Aaar! Translation: I am a pirate, you scurvy sea-dog. Aaar! [audio:vikingpirate.mp3]

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The Bootey

Here be this pirate video from Lazytown. This be what they were filmin’ me first day o’ the set last year. Arrr! Ye might also enjoy watchin’ Aye, Robot An’ fer the comic fans, here be a page o’ pirate comics.

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Life cast

I’m building a polar bear costume for a childrens’ hospital here, and for the head, needed a life cast of someone’s face to build on. Back in Portland, I have several life casts of different people that I sculpt on when I’m making a mask. Wigforms are lovely things for wigs, but they are not

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Sunny Day = Late Night

38,506 / 50,000(76.0%) 2446 words in two hours. I spent the day playing with Rob and stayed up ridiculously late to write. Well, and then I was also seduced by Captain Future and Danger Planet, which should really have an exclamation point in the title. First: In the center of the rocky ground, the earth

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Pulp goldmine

We biked to the Kolaport today because the weather is gorgeous. In the course of browsing, I found a booth that was selling off someone’s entire collection of science fiction. 500 kronur for seven books. I managed to limit myself to seven, which was not easy. I now have first printings of: The Stars My

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Backsliding

Well, I had to delete 1700 words yesterday, because I realized that I had taken two different wrong turns in the plot. The interesting thing with both of them is that in both cases I was clearly stalling while I tried to figure out what happened next. Much earlier in the process, I had made

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