Buckwheat

No, I only had contact with her on this forum and on the old tumblr, but not since. I don't remember knowing much about her personal life, she was always very secretive.

Oooooooooh! I recognised the Tardis, but for some reason, I didn't connect it to the Doctor. My tired brain. Thank you, Pebble.

I even don't understand this picture, and a crude representation of me seems to be in it.

Everything went very well, it is over, I can finally relax for a bit now! Whew. Thanks!

Thank you all - I am going to take all the luck I can, I am going to need it!

Thank you both!

Not sure where the last thread about PhDs is, so I am just putting this here ... my PhD defense is tomorrow. I am very much freaking out inside.

I don't know anything about the other participants, but I am pretty sure Slovenia is not going to qualify for the finals. ETA: I like weird joke entries. I am all for Estonia now.

Absolutely PROUDEST teacher moment: my darling students organised their "prom" yesterday evening. (I am not sure how right the word "prom" is, as our celebrations don't look like the ones in Americam films, but it is the closest thing to call it.) Among other amazing moments, they sang Gaudeamus Igitur with minimal playback and no supporting text (most classes use a lot of playback, some just open their mouth or read the text projection), brought a goddamn PARALLEL BARS to the dance hall and performed a routine on it, including my physics-teaching coworker, danced like their life depended on it, gave the most moving and touching and beautiful speech ever. Then the party went on waaaaaay longer than my old self is able to handle, so today I am a useless exhausted mess. I dread the daylight saving clock change tonight. But emotionally, I am still under the impression of how great my students are and now it's starting to settle in that I am only going to teach them for less than two months from now on, and how much I am going to miss them.

I hope he returns soon. (Sorry for double post, Jace posted just as I was typing!)

I am attending an event tonight that is going to be under a large tent. I fear spring is not quite strong enough for that yet and it is still going to be slightly too cold.

Where is then the light that brings the dawn?

I am not sure how common the term is in English, but the Slovene equivalent of it would probably be taught to students around the age of 13 and then more in detail in secondary school, aged around 16. I don't think it is something children on the level I assume your daughter is (how old is she?) would necessarily need to learn.

I have my car back! And it is dry and the drains are cleared out so it should stay that way! I assume those would be parts of the sentence (not just individual words) that denote time, such as: "on Tuesday", "between 1955 and 1961", "from 8.00 till 12.00", "every day" etc. Did you figure it out?

It is not going to be as expensive as I feared, luckily. So that's a positive. The problem a puddle on the floor and water being in places it wasn't supposed to be in was that it could damage the inner ... how do you call that, carpeting on the floor, the filling of the seats and stuff. It could grow mould and stink. At least that is what they told me at the repair shop. I know nothing about cars either.

Shhhhhhhhhhh! Happy spring, thread.

How nice of them! However, this car is long past its warranty period (although it is not yet very old by car standards). :O But but but won't someone think of the children? Anyway, update: they told me they found out what the problem was and fixed it. It turned out that there was a blockage somewhere under the front hood (by the window wipers) where the rainwater was supposed to flow through, so it couldn't drain and it came into the inside of the car. They cleared that out, but now the car will have to spend some time in an airy garage to completely dry. Whew.

I am not so sure these are solutions, but my boyfriendperson would be delighted with the idea of a tank. How do you park these things anywhere though? To get to my workplace, one has to drive through a narrow part of the parking place right next to a primary school. How would you manouver one of these giant vehicles around small children jumping left and right, whom you cannot even see from up there? Not to mention parking space at my work is very limited ... One of my coworkers is driving today, so yes. Hopefully I can rely on them for however many days it takes to fix. They are going to call me tomorrow from the service shop and tell me what they found out.

I opened the door on the passenger's side of my car today morning to go to work and found a puddle of rainwater on the floor in front of the passenger's seat. Something must leak somewhere. Although my coworkers (with whom we commute together) and I made jokes about it, the lady at the car repair shop immediately said it was a serious problem and now I have no car for the foreseeable future. They are going to take a look at it tomorrow and it is probably going to cost a fortune to fix. This was very much not how I needed my week to start. Problems, problems.

I just finished Leigh Bardugo's Crooked Kingdom (in Slovene translation). It is very gripping, very fast-paced plot full of turns everywhere and sometimes so many changes of point of view and hiddend secrets being revealed left and right and plots within plots that it is almost hard to follow (especially if you read it so very tired after a workday). It is definitely different than the first trilogy, but I enjoyed "meeting" some of the characters again ... which brings me to the biggest problem I have with it, which is the translation. The Shadow and Bone trilogy and the Ketterdam books (Six of Crows + Crooked Kingdom) apparently have the same translator, but some of the spellings have been changed, but only in the Shadow and Bone trilogy, which was translated later. In my opinion, correctly, as it appropriately changed the spelling of the Russian-inspired names to something that can be read by a speaker of another Slavic language. However, the Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom has the Russian-inspired names as they are spelled in English, which is annoying and makes no sense in a Slovene text. At least I can say that the translations improved over time. /probablynotathingthatinterestsanybodyinthisthread

I finished reading Leigh Bardugo's Six of Crows, which I read in translation. I found it fun, gripping, packed with action and intrigue - just what I sometimes need to remind me why I love reading among all the things I need to read for work. I must find time for the sequel soon, as the ending promises more adventures to come ...

How can that be legally possible? There should be a way to get out of paying that, right?

I hope you are completely healed by now! What kind of punch? My parents usually make something we call a "bovla", but I cannot find an English expression for it - it is made with champagne and mixed fruit (strawberries, raspberries and such), served in a large bowl and poured into glass cups with a spoon. I am not sure if it is a general tradition or just something my family did.

Lentil soup people unite! I am sorry to hear about your sickness, I hope you get well completly soon! I was at home with the boyfriendperson and also my brother came to celebrate with us. We played board games, ate (also drank some), saw the fireworks at midnight - standard stuff, it was okay.

All news to me. Amazing information! Sounds logical! I like lentils too, I make a really good lentil soup, if I say so myself. Unfortunately, the boyfriendperson is not much of a friend of it. How did you celebrate NYE?