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This week:
— Unlock debit card, try to make sure student loan money will go into it
— Fix/translate those African poems
— Write self-intro for the Esperanto club
Before October:
— Clean room, toss everything
— Clean out comp, sell old comp?
— Get to N1 level in reading Japanese
Keep thinking again that I have to "man up" and just become an adult already. Adults can't shirk all their responsibilities and put off everything for months, they don't promise stuff that has a chance of not happening, they don't spend all their time complaining, etc. Of course I'm speaking about the ideal type of adult, the kind that's in my mind. I have a LOT of stuff I've been putting off for months or years and I REALLY need to just swallow my fear/laziness and do it, though in the past few days I've for some reason felt really tired and sleepy all day... Last night I had a bad eyeache and was super thirsty too, they're probably all connected.... *yawns* when i say tired, i mean if i pause in writing this my eyes literally slide out of focus and i feel like i'm going to drift off to sleep in a few moments. it's summertime so my body's overtaxing itself, what with the bright sunlight and all, i think...
If you put off stuff until you "feel like it" or "feel better", you'll never get it done. Time doesn't actually stop just because you don't feel any time-press. Then suddenly that thing you promised to do, you realize your promise happened 4 months ago, or you haven't replied to that Email in 5 weeks. Sigh. Just have to man up... Clean everything, keep it clean, become an adult. Stop messing up and eating food that makes me feel sick.
lusentoj / rent-feelings - current goals
06 August 2017 @ 04:03 pm
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African poems?
(Good luck with the Esperanto club!)
(Good luck with the Esperanto club!)
I promised MONTHS ago that I'd fix the Esperanto some kids in the Congo wrote and then edit it into a book and put it up on Lulu for them to sell. I feel really bad about it (like "I'm a piece of shit" bad) but I haven't done it yet, and I don't know what's stopping me. They haven't been sending me reminders or anything and they've partially misunderstood the whole thing (I can't put the book up for them because the Lulu account owner has to be the same person as who gains the profits from the book) but at the same time I have no idea what their internet situation is like.
Actually I do know what stopped me each time I started: their Esperanto is too bad, I can't figure out what they want to say all the time... The headmaster/teacher's Esperanto is pretty bad too, that's the problem.
Actually I do know what stopped me each time I started: their Esperanto is too bad, I can't figure out what they want to say all the time... The headmaster/teacher's Esperanto is pretty bad too, that's the problem.
Ohhh man yeah that's rough. I hate that kind of thing. When I'm editing my sister's stuff if I can't work out what she means I usually say sg like "do you mean [disambiguating example 1] or [disambiguating example 2?" but of course she's fluent in English so it doesn't come up all that often.
Ugh that's rough. Good luck
Ugh that's rough. Good luck
I managed to do half the poems!
But I'm stuck on a few lines like this:
Momente ni komprenas ke nenio fari ekzistas ĉeestante en malsato.
"For a moment we understand that nothing to do exists existing at in hunger".
Because it's poems I have almost no context too. Sigh.
But I'm stuck on a few lines like this:
Momente ni komprenas ke nenio fari ekzistas ĉeestante en malsato.
"For a moment we understand that nothing to do exists existing at in hunger".
Because it's poems I have almost no context too. Sigh.
...huh. yeah, that's difficult.
Maybe it means, like, having nothing to do makes you hungry? Or makes you want to do things?
Maybe it means, like, having nothing to do makes you hungry? Or makes you want to do things?