i feel an urge to be responsible coming on and it feels like a headache.

Two days this weekend I was nauseated from hunger because I was too tired and weak to think of something to make, buy the ingredients, clean the kitchen, and prepare it. And then being weak from hunger I slept for like. A really long time. Which is completely ridiculous. I need to get some kind of routine in place for buying and preparing food so that I don't end up trying to subsist on slightly-stale bread and müsli all week.

Also when wallowing in a flat that looks like the aftermath of a tornado all weekend it's easy not to notice how gross it is, but when you come home from school all awake and there are like six loads of laundry distributed over the floor and furniture, every surface in the kitchen covered with dirty dishes and a mountain of unsorted recycling blocking in the recycling bins, and a week of junkmail lying by the door... WHOA. #No

unappealing consonant sequence of the week

So I was translating this Teen Wolf RPF (Hoechlin/O'Brien obvs) from Spanish for waxjism's benefit on Friday night, because it really wasn't fair the way I was rhapsodizing about how it made me squirm in delight but she couldn't read it. (To be clear, I didn't squirm in delight because of its literary genius - it was really good and adorable and in a literary sense, slightly lyrical and beautifully paced and sizzling with US- and Emotional T, but those things alone aren't enough to prompt squirming - but because it kept hitting my fic kinks and, perhaps more importantly, I was pretty much dying to read some RPS about those dudes already when I found it.) (I did get permission from the author, so I will eventually post the result. No sense in wasting 4 or 5 hours' work.)

But the thing is that the dictionary I was having to rely way too much on translated farfullar as "gabble" first (followed by splutter, stammer, jabber, etc), and so that unfortunately stuck in my head, and - have you noticed that 'gabble' is possibly the world's least sexy verb? Or not quite, but at least one of the least sexy dialogue tags I can think of. It might be because of similarity to 'gobble' or just a simple matter of phonetics, but it sounds kind of ridiculous and embarrassing, and it kept coming up in these long twisty complex sentences, because her characterization of Dylan is quite Stilesy, and... yeah. Brain-cringe, every single time.

And also, who actually says 'gabble', anyway? Surely it shouldn't have been the first translation.