Lesson One: Correct Use of Shovel*

[bending_sickle]

After yesterday's lack of Italian class and the day before yesterday's purely revision class, we finally had our honest-to-gods real teacher and not the sustitute teacher (who was not sick but rather in the frickin' USA visiting her daughter and wee grandson, which, good for you but holy fuck, we can has class, yes?). What do we do? Revision and repetition, again. She didn't even bother to talk to the substitute (who gave us 9 hours of lessons) about what we'd already covered. And when she learned that we'd already covered that bit, she went on and explained it again. Holy fucking sheep and ewes, yo! Aslkjslfgk.

In other news, after class I met up with mom at the Piazza Navona for pizza rossa and bianca and a tartufo (which was huuuge but deliscious but made me feel icky from ice cream overload).

I watched Lost last night and only got wibbley when Hurley did (honestly, Hurley's got a direct line to my heart - he's sad, I break). It didn't knock my socks off, though. I can't wait for next weeks - I miss Jacob! Which is weird, because Jacob really isn't that central a character (but rather a central plot point). I had a dream last night where I was Hurley running uphill through a tropical forest. Made me think of playing hide-and-seek at night in the Mexican Ambassador's house in Costa Rica. (They have a set house for the Ambassador, and damn, did it have nice terrain.)

Tonight, Supernatural. I expect to wibble, cheer and curse.

Links of the Day:
Supernatural:
fatranka's Review Two Minutes to Midnight
teand's Review Two Minutes to Midnight
adrenalineshots's Review and Speculation Two Minutes to Midnight
tacry_loo_who's Review Two Minutes to Midnight
lovetheguys' Review Two Minutes to Midnight
kajmere's Review Two Minutes to Midnight
larienelengasse's Review Two Minutes to Midnight
the_fmly_bzns's Review Two Minutes to Midnight
leonidaslion's flocked Two Minutes to Midnight Episode Reaction Post & Reassurance Request
hugemind's Meta The Visual Story at a Glance: "The Devil You Know (5x20)
iwantpie's Hammer of the Gods Icons
rach_lin_ackles' The Hammer of the Gods GIFs
maraceles's Picspam Pretty Sam (In Many Incarnations)
spnrarepairs's Welcome: Fic and Art Exchange
tearphoenix's Fanvid Who You Gonna Call?
Ray Grigg's Lucifer, The Movie (Trailer)
TodayOnline's Interview: Ackles, Padalecki, Collins

Ashes to Ashes / Life On Mars:
DenOfGeek's What Happened to Sam Tyler?
Wiki's Sex Symbol - Why hello there, Philip Glenister!

Lost: cloudytea's Lost Icons
Benry Knows Best's Little Help From My Friends

Multifandom:
lovesick_moose's Icons - V, Lost, Fringe, Celebrities, Hackers, Donnie Darko
wptjeh's JEH Animated Mood Theme

Other Fandom:
snowgrouse's Doctor Who The Time Monster Drinking Game
amplificathon's XKCD OMG Velociraptors
extemporanea's Recommendation of Harry Potter Fic Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - ...leaps gleefully, boots and all, onto the totally ginormous logical flaws all over the series, and proceeds to surgically dissect them on strict rationalist principles, with frequent reference to science and logic.
YouTube's Terry Pratchett's Going Postal Trailer

Random:
made_of_fail_pc's Episode 29: If you liked it, you should have put a ring on it
yumemisama's On ravens, their feathers and good luck ; Recommendation of QuackCast Podcast
bookshop's Bad Romance (Or, YA and Rape Culture)
Fugitivus' Another Post About Rape
BBCNews' The Naked Mole Rat: Meet the "sabre-toothed sausage"


* Jingo, TPratchett

Comments

[poisoned-sleep.livejournal.com]

HAHAHA. I misread that as "tapioca forest."

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I can't believe you have so much knowledge of so many languages now. I would get SO CONFUSED.

[bending-sickle.livejournal.com]

A tapioca forest would be awesome. It would border a custard lake ringed with peppermint rocks, chai tea springs...

Oh, the languages do cross about in my brain - I keep wanting to use the Dutch word for "but" when trying to speak German, and then Spanish and Italian are joined at the hip...

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

Ugh, don't even TALK to me about teachers and their dumb reasons for missing classes. Dealing with that's a normal part of my job, and it's not too bad usually, but this particular finals week (when, even besides the tests they have to administer, students might be quite interested in talking to them) I had to work around one who "was nominated for an award in Missouri" and a second who "had to go to England to record something". Musicians, argh!

[bending-sickle.livejournal.com]

Well, at least those teachers are actually doing something. Mine just went, "I can has vacation now, I has grandson." Grr.