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tenlittlebullets) wrote2004-03-02 10:21 am
tenlittlebullets) wrote2004-03-02 10:21 am
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Wow, been a while since I updated. New York trip was last weekend; see this post to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
operaghost for my review of Phantom, as I'm far too lazy to type it out again here. Anyway, I like New York a lot, and I like it even more when I'm not there on a field trip and I'm not being shepherded around as part of a flock of fifty or so kids. We did lots of the tourist thing--boat tour, carriage ride in Central Park, all that silly stuff, but my favorite part aside from the show was probably just walking around midtown looking for a good place to eat, taking the subway down to Battery Park, and actually being able to orient myself and know where I was going instead of being confined to following the field-trip tour guide and maybe exploring a few blocks of Fifth Avenue. Once you get away from that, NYC is actually much easier to navigate than Washington DC--it's all gridwork, and unlike DC it's not split into the goddamn quadrants. God, I hate the quadrants.
In other news my life is pretty boring. Reading Stephen King, writing fanfic, arguing on PotO message boards... probably the most exciting thing would be me despairing of ever learning the Cyrillic keyboard layout from the printout I keep losing, and just writing the letters directly on the keys. Aaaah, much better. Am worried though, because I still have no grasp of Russian whatsoever and there's a big competition in spoken Russian coming up in April. We just got the review sheets and half of it still looked like Greek to me--we're only in chapter 7 of the horrible textbook we have, which doesn't even teach the fuckin' numbers until chapter 14 or so. Doesn't help that the rest of the class are idiots and just yesterday had to have любить explained to them at length. They're even thicker than last year's German class, who after a year were still using English sentence structure.
Fairly legit rumour has it that Rammstein are to be working with Tatu. Aside from the "eeeeew, Tatu" factor, it certainly does pique the interest of the little rabid slash fan in me... I'd bet a hefty sum of money it was Richard who talked them into it, and it makes me wonder what he had to do to get Schneider to go along with it... also makes me wonder if the fake-lesbians thing might have given them ideas. *evilgrin, starts plotting fic*
No school today--election day. But I have a big English assignment due tomorrow, which means I really should be writing my "official" review of the show instead of scribbling in this journal.
operaghost for my review of Phantom, as I'm far too lazy to type it out again here. Anyway, I like New York a lot, and I like it even more when I'm not there on a field trip and I'm not being shepherded around as part of a flock of fifty or so kids. We did lots of the tourist thing--boat tour, carriage ride in Central Park, all that silly stuff, but my favorite part aside from the show was probably just walking around midtown looking for a good place to eat, taking the subway down to Battery Park, and actually being able to orient myself and know where I was going instead of being confined to following the field-trip tour guide and maybe exploring a few blocks of Fifth Avenue. Once you get away from that, NYC is actually much easier to navigate than Washington DC--it's all gridwork, and unlike DC it's not split into the goddamn quadrants. God, I hate the quadrants.In other news my life is pretty boring. Reading Stephen King, writing fanfic, arguing on PotO message boards... probably the most exciting thing would be me despairing of ever learning the Cyrillic keyboard layout from the printout I keep losing, and just writing the letters directly on the keys. Aaaah, much better. Am worried though, because I still have no grasp of Russian whatsoever and there's a big competition in spoken Russian coming up in April. We just got the review sheets and half of it still looked like Greek to me--we're only in chapter 7 of the horrible textbook we have, which doesn't even teach the fuckin' numbers until chapter 14 or so. Doesn't help that the rest of the class are idiots and just yesterday had to have любить explained to them at length. They're even thicker than last year's German class, who after a year were still using English sentence structure.
Fairly legit rumour has it that Rammstein are to be working with Tatu. Aside from the "eeeeew, Tatu" factor, it certainly does pique the interest of the little rabid slash fan in me... I'd bet a hefty sum of money it was Richard who talked them into it, and it makes me wonder what he had to do to get Schneider to go along with it... also makes me wonder if the fake-lesbians thing might have given them ideas. *evilgrin, starts plotting fic*
No school today--election day. But I have a big English assignment due tomorrow, which means I really should be writing my "official" review of the show instead of scribbling in this journal.