unstuck in time

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Also, I'd like to wish all of you a VERY HAPPY 2012!!!! Hope it brings nothing but the best!!

Happy Hanukkah!



I'm so used to the Swedish transcription - Chanuka - that I always feel there's an h or a k too many when I write it in English.

From fannish5:

Name your 5 favorite fanon "facts".

1. (SG-1) After S8, Jack O'Neill and his ex-wife Sara got back together. (Yup, my OTP - or as close as I'll get to one, anyway. <3)

2. (Star Trek) Vulcans have a sligthly higher body temperature than humans.

3. (Star Trek xi) Before he met Nyota, Spock had an epic crush on captain Pike. He's over it now. Mostly.

4. (Star Trek xi) Keenser (Scotty's tiny bescaled fellow officer from Delta Vega) is female. (This is pure self-defence, I'm thousands of words into a never-ending Keenser story in which she is a career Starfleet officer and working mother, and now I'm too invested in the idea to let it go.)

5. (Star Trek RPF) Noah is totally the kind of dog who would scare a burglar away by licking him and being generally enthusiastic.

The latest death toll of the attacks in Norwegian capital Oslo and at a youth camp just outside is 7 and 84, respectively. BBC has a good summary of the events. (Warning: the description of the gunman attacking the youth camp is pretty chilling.) So sad for everyone involved, especially the kids (teenagers, really) and their families.

I'm also fucking furious with all so-called experts who were really quick to blame islamists, some even after it had come out that the person responsible was a Norwegian with extreme right-wing views.

... and ran a 5k race today?

This girl!

I now hurt all over and feel kind of awesome at the same time.

if you change your mind Little_star's music teacher apparently the history book on the shelf thought it was a good idea to introduce the kids young and sweet, only seventeen to ABBA. there was something is the air that night It went, uh, well you look like a movie star in the sense that little_star now thinks ABBA the gods they roll the dice is the greatest thing ever. Also won't someone hear my prayer it turns out that Spotify has don't go wasting your emotion ALL the ABBA songs! I think lights are gonna find me I had planned to use my brain for other things of a world where every neighbor is a friend tonight, but now I'm not sure breaking up is never easy I know :D! so I wanna know ...



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An 8.9-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami hit Japan yesterday. The tsunami is still spreading across the Pacific, people are being evacuated from Easter islands. CNET has a list of resources, including aid in finding loved ones and ways to donate to relief efforts.

The news footage shows horrifying destruction, my thoughts are with anyone affected.

The yiddish policemen's union by Michael Chabon

( According to doctors, therapists, and his ex-wife Landsmann drinks to medicate himself )

Kan du säga shibbolet? (Can you say shibboleth?) by Marjaneh Bakhtiari

( what is the right way to be an immigrant, anyway? )

Stamtavlor (Lineages) by Dilsa Demirbag-Sten

( I am a Berti, of the tribe Bertiyan )

Det målade rummet (the painted room) by Eva Christiansen

( ok, I didn't get this )

A room swept white by Sophie Hannah

( run-of-the-mill crime story that I liked well enough until ... I didn't )

The final part of Hongloumeng has been published in Swedish and I ordered my copy today XD!! Now I don't have to worry about the translator getting ill, or something.

(Yeah, I know there are English and French editions available since forever, but this translator has done an awesome job so far, plus I think I'd have to start from the beginning if I wanted to read in another language, due to slightly different transcription conventions with names and such.)

Hongloumeng, part 2, 3 and 4 by Cao Xueqin

( dreams of the red chambers )

Grekiska - språket, kulturen, myterna (Greek - language, culture, myths) by Eva-Carin Gerö

( sofrosyne stands for temperance )

yarden (the yard) by Kristian Lundberg

( my son. my happiness. a mirror image grounded in light where I fall into darkness )