oh, I am sooo not giving in to the urge to whine right now.
it's not much to be proud of, I know.

My russian class meets in a middle school in Noe Valley... pretty funny to sit in middle school seats with a bunch of grown-ups, struggling over verb conjugation and sweating over chapter tests.
On the blackboard when I arrived was the following:

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Mr. Podowski

This war will not be on your television.

"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved through understanding." - Albert Einstein

VOCABULARY
indigenous
genocide
disease
ritual
A-BOMB
covert - secret

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ooh, I just started a whole whining thing, and had to delete it. it's way too dangerous to get that self-indulgent...
my class is fucking hard, or- a possibility we must consider- I'm not studying enough.
ok, let's nip the whining in the bud.
now, for something completely silly:
someone at work sent me this link recently. depending on my mood my feelings about it range from the truly entertained to kind of annoyed. I really like the one that's on the main page right now: "Learning, Sharing, Growing: A Children's Guide to Life's Lessons." The lesson called Annie is all little movies of his cat. very, very entertaining, but maybe only if one has cats? whattya think? universally entertaining? or a cat thing? be sure to look at "good idea (poor execution)" before you make up your mind.

ooh, that's all the hooey I can write for today. time for bed.