Random Photo Post!

[kungfuwaynewho]

It's time for another one.  I will begin with this amazing face that my youngest sister has started making.  Like many things, she did it once, I laughed forever, so now she's going to do it at every opportunity.  But it's so awesome, I can't begrudge her doing it.  I think she asked me to buy her a sub and I told her no, and this was the result:

 

She looks like Orson Welles!  She seriously does, OMG.  Look.
 

Amazing.
 

Revision time!  Yes, I print six pages to a page, double-sided; I can print an entire script with about ten-twelve sheets of paper.
 

 

The inexplicable snack machine in my work's break room.  I tried it once and got the wrong M&Ms. 
 

Latin books!  This isn't even all the Latin books.
 

My sixteen year old sister's luxurious gray hair.

In conclusion, I had this plan for making tons of Miranda gifs, but I never seem to have time, so here's the one gif I've made thus far, maybe, potentially more pending.
 

Comments

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Heee, that is an awesome face your sister makes. And I love the Latin books (I have similar absurd collections for both French and Old English, for all the good they do me...), and kitties! So cute! ♥

(Also, good idea with the printing four to a page... I'll have to keep that in mind.)

[kungfuwaynewho.livejournal.com]

I've always wanted to learn Old English. I have a copy of Beowulf with the original on one page and the modern English translation on the other, and sometimes I try to figure out what the words are, but it doesn't really work like that.

One time, when I had a lot of scripts to print off and read for class, I printed them nine pages to a page - but that's going a little too far.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the facing editions like that are awesome (especially for Beowulf, as it's probably the Seamus Heaney translation? He's just plain fantastic...), but not all that helpful. I have a few grammars and things like that, too (for all the sense I can make of them - they tend to be dense little buggers), and then books of poetry, kennings and things, with academic translations that sometimes make things a little more clear, I've had to admit that I'm never going to get all that far with it. Alas.

Tiny print! Good on you, though - too many people don't give a damn about wasting paper. ♥

[kungfuwaynewho.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure it's Seamus Heaney - that name sounds familiar, at any rate.

What's helping me a lot right now are a couple of textbooks that are "immersive," in that almost all of it is written in Latin. I don't think it's the kind of thing I'd have been able to follow without doing a few years of traditional, grammar-based study, but I'm finding it fantastic in terms of making me stop translating everything into English in my head as I go along.

You give me too much credit - I don't like to waste paper, sure, but I really don't like to waste ten cents a page. ;)