he chortled in his joy

last night i slept a total of 90 minutes. i didn't finish writing the essay i turned in today until about 5 minutes before i walked out the door this morning and i was practically late to class. isilya suggests that this milestone marks the edge of a slippery slope, but if so i feel it must be the bottom edge, because there's really nowhere else to slip after that, is there? for the oral portion i could have talked for a lot longer than six minutes, and despite the atrocious quality of my swedish after only 90 minutes' sleep (and thus my saying "um" more times than i ever have before in my life) my presentation occasioned the most class discussion.

and the universe dumped a prize in my lap today! a prize involving money! i've been talking lately about how i'd love to hear some live norwegian and try to converse with it, now that i speak swedish. i was awakened from a nap by a call from wax's sister-in-law's norwegian stepfather, who solicits my help translating an academic paper from norwegian & swedish into english. the last time wax and i did this as a team and he paid us with dinner at one of the nicest restaurants i have ever eaten in, but i think this time he intends to pay with actual money. plus, hello--getting paid to play with svenska akademiens ordbok and translate from swedish to english? oh frabjous day! etc, etc.

another pair of earbuds bites the dust. it's the third 4th! one to go in... twenty months i've been here. i wonder if it actually might be more cost-efficient to buy expensive ones, but i hate to do that. especially since earbuds NEVER fit in my ears right, and wouldn't it suck if they turned out to be especially bad? it would be much more galling if they had cost more than €15. i had this lovely and extremely cheap pair from target that i brought here with me that had little glasses-type hooks that went behind the ear to hold them on. i haven't seen that here, though.

confidential to shiroi_chi: buy the triple sec!