2003/2004

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Some sort of ritual statement concerning what one did in the old year and what one intends to do in the new year seems necessary. Um.

My room is better organised than it has been for most of 2003. I'll call that a positive achievement. I learned a little Japanese, and am ashamed that I haven't learned more. I developed my role at the hospital as a data analyst, working on the 4-hour wait deadline for emergency admissions (no, we still aren't at a reliable 90% -- I do the figures, trust me, I know). I got a commendation for my work in Cardiothoracic. I did a data quality audit course -- and must now do at least two audits in the next year, blast it.

I wrote stuff. GURPS Vorkosigan and Hearts, Swords, and Flowers: The Art of Shoujo will both hopefully be out next year -- no, this year now.

I think that my writing has improved over this past year. I think that my attitude towards being able to sit down and get writing done has also improved. Good.

I still hate losing my temper, and I still hate getting things wrong.

I should really start another lj, one that nobody will know where to find or read, so that I can write rude things and post them, and do the equivalent of Midas' barber whispering into a hole in the ground. Perhaps. Sometime. (But then again, if nobody reads them, what's the point? One might as well write text files and save them and then delete them.)

I am, a lot of the time, and in a lot of ways, happy.

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Lines in the GetBackers manga for which I look forward with interest to an English translation (mainly to see how far they'll go):

HEVN : Je vais t'enfoncer mon poing dans le cul et t'arracher les boyaux de l'interieur!! Fais ta priere, ordure!!

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[luxetumbra.livejournal.com]

HEVN : Je vais t'enfoncer mon poing dans le cul et t'arracher les boyaux de l'interieur!! Fais ta priere, ordure!!

I will put my fist up your ass and pull out your guts? Say your prayers, trash?

^_^?

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I will put my fist up your ass and pull out your guts? Say your prayers, trash?

Along those lines, but a few shades idiomatically ruder, I think. "I'm going to shove my fist up your ass and rip your guts out from inside . . ."

King Midas Has Ass's Ears

[(Anonymous)]

Reeds, I thought it was. You're being too rational about this, *I* think. Get an lj, make everything friends locked, don't friend anyone, and write. Then find out if it really makes no difference that no-one is reading. An audience, even a theoretical one, changes your voice, as you were saying just the other day. So see what you sound like when the thing is There On The Net but the audience is absent. Like speaking with your fingers in your ears, at a guess. An interesting and possibly enlightening exercise.
-mjj

Re: King Midas Has Ass's Ears

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Mm. Possibly. Probably, even. I know I have problems with rationality. I'll try. (Not that you'll know about it, but . . . )

[aberrantangels]

luxetumbra's translation is basically accurate, but I don't think it's quite punchy enough. I'd have rendered it more along the lines of "I'm gonna shove my fist up your ass and yank out your guts!! Say your prayers, shitbag!"

Then again, I haven't seen the original Japanese, but it sounds like a sentiment that's hard to express without recourse to Politeness Level 1 (as Mangajin would call it).

— Austin Loomis

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Yes, that's pretty much how I'd translate it. (You read Mangajin too? I've been going through it as well. ;))

[mikeneko.livejournal.com]

But then again, if nobody reads them, what's the point?

Hmm. Well, everything she said. [points upward] Try and find out. :)

Flipside of that coin, I'd been sitting by my ownsome and deleting whenever I felt like it for a few years. I already had more audience than I could take elsewhere; over here, no company at all, and whatever I was really thinking went up, in public, with zero repercussions. Didn't have to weigh every.single.syllable for a change. No worries about how I was going to get misinterpreted this time around. Nice. And very rude.

This is the first year anyone's been in my vicinity; it's taken quite a bit of adjusting on my part, not handled brilliantly so far. To me, it feels completely different. Could be a symptom of middle-age; I've not noticed that the teenagers have these issues. ^^;

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I think that I may try it, yes.

(What would this lj be like if I were writing it fifteen years ago as a teenager? Well, I'd have been quoting Suzanne Vega a lot more, and writing Mary Sues . . . these days I just daydream them. :))

[bexfiles.livejournal.com]

I want to read Hearts, Swords and Flowers - so bug me lots when it does come out!

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Will do. ;) I believe the hoped-for date is around February/Valentine's Day, but deadlines are made for slipping.