things to do
May. 3rd, 2004 02:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
incandescensa) Rewatch Onmyouji. (White hair is prettier, but for things like clothing and motion and even patterns of speech, I need to rewatch Onmyouji.)
b) Why do I fall so easily into the trap of wanting to see what happens next in a halfway decent shounen series, let alone a good one? Wait, that's not really a To Do, that's a Want To Do.
c) Do something virtuous along the lines of housework before I get asked to. Then retreat to computer for rest of day. Heh heh.
d) Sleep in.
e) Tidy books a bit. Piles around bedside table are beginning to overflow.
f) Try not to check "your current order" section on page of company I've ordered computer from. Well, not more than a few times. Or at least not too many times.
g) Remember this line and save it for later. "Such worthless creatures fled before merely the sound of my mount's wings." Find a better way to translate it from French. Give it to a character who can deliver it with style.
---
So times were pleasant for the people there
until finally one, a fiend out of hell,
began to work his evil in the world.
Grendel was the name of the grim demon
haunting the marches, marauding around the heath
and the desolate fens; he had dwelt for a time
among the banished monsters,
Cain's clan, whom the Creator had outlawed
and condemned as outcasts. For the killing of Abel
the Eternal Lord had exacted a price:
Cain got no good for committing that murder
because the Almighty made him anathema
and out of the curse of his exile there sprang
ogres and elves and evil phantoms
and the giants too who strove with God
time and again until He gave then their reward.
So, after nightfall, Grendel set out
for the lofty house, to see how the Ring-Danes
were settling into it after their drink,
and there he came upon them, a company of the best
asleep from their feasting, insensible to pain
and human sorrow. Suddenly then
the God-cursed brute was creating havoc:
greedy and grim.
-- Anon. (Old English, pre-10th century) (translated by Seamus Heaney)
b) Why do I fall so easily into the trap of wanting to see what happens next in a halfway decent shounen series, let alone a good one? Wait, that's not really a To Do, that's a Want To Do.
c) Do something virtuous along the lines of housework before I get asked to. Then retreat to computer for rest of day. Heh heh.
d) Sleep in.
e) Tidy books a bit. Piles around bedside table are beginning to overflow.
f) Try not to check "your current order" section on page of company I've ordered computer from. Well, not more than a few times. Or at least not too many times.
g) Remember this line and save it for later. "Such worthless creatures fled before merely the sound of my mount's wings." Find a better way to translate it from French. Give it to a character who can deliver it with style.
---
So times were pleasant for the people there
until finally one, a fiend out of hell,
began to work his evil in the world.
Grendel was the name of the grim demon
haunting the marches, marauding around the heath
and the desolate fens; he had dwelt for a time
among the banished monsters,
Cain's clan, whom the Creator had outlawed
and condemned as outcasts. For the killing of Abel
the Eternal Lord had exacted a price:
Cain got no good for committing that murder
because the Almighty made him anathema
and out of the curse of his exile there sprang
ogres and elves and evil phantoms
and the giants too who strove with God
time and again until He gave then their reward.
So, after nightfall, Grendel set out
for the lofty house, to see how the Ring-Danes
were settling into it after their drink,
and there he came upon them, a company of the best
asleep from their feasting, insensible to pain
and human sorrow. Suddenly then
the God-cursed brute was creating havoc:
greedy and grim.
-- Anon. (Old English, pre-10th century) (translated by Seamus Heaney)
