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  1. On 10/15/2023 at 4:27 PM, The BlackBear said:

    It's going alright. But I always forget just how much work being single is. You have to cook AND do the washing up. Hang the washing AND put it away. Do ALL the shopping. Do ALL the cleaning. And apparently I'm meant to do all this whilst working and getting some exercise in. Much easier when all the housework is shared.

    I haven't lived with a partner before, but I am glad the work reduces once you do. ;)

    In other news, three work days and then I have a week off, yay.

    Also, there is a quiz in the local bookshop on Friday and the topic is fantasy/sci-fi literature and films. I really want to go, but sadly I don't have a team to go with. :(

  2. I have read Good Omens a few times, but the translation into Slovene, which is very good.

    Now I started reading a rare Slovene fantasy book, I am not yet far enough into it to really form an opinion. The prologue and the first few chapters are really confusing, but now some information have started to show.

    But I also have a whole pile of students' tests to read through, and in the coming week, I will have even more of those, so I don't know how much motivation I will have to left to read anything.

  3. On 10/12/2023 at 12:02 PM, The BlackBear said:

    Sounds like past Buckwheat thought that was future Buckwheats problem.

    Past Buckwheat has had ideas that were later proven to be stupid before. But anyway, the day is over and all in all, I cannot complain about early starts in this school year, since I don't start this early most of the days.

    On 10/12/2023 at 12:02 PM, The BlackBear said:

    I have just got back from a long weekend in Prague. Which is a beautiful city. Though I drank too much and slept too little so I was exhausted when we got back.

    Prague is nice indeed, I visited once years ago with my family.

    On 10/12/2023 at 12:02 PM, The BlackBear said:

    In book news I am slowly but surely creeping through my completionist discworld reread (catching the ones I'd missed.) It caused a half forgotten memory to surface, that I think Angua was my first crush :blush:

    I need to read this. At some point. The to be read list in my mind is ever growing and there is never enough time to read through it, and I just keep switching priorities on what to read next.

  4. 17 hours ago, Pebble thats Stubby said:

    I'm affraid its only going to get worse.  Its that horrible time of year when things are just turning and you know you have all winter ahead.  the days are short enough that you start to notice yet you know they will get a lot shorter, the weather will get colder, wetter and windyer.  the nice sunny bits don't last long and just serve to remind you that of the summer is over.  Nothing but depression until spring.

     

    late winter/early spring weather may be technically worse, but then the sunshine breaks give glimpses of the future and nice days ahead.  you know its only getting better.  (and I'll be retited I hope, so that makes everythng better but first got to get though this dark and depressing winter)

    I think it is not as horrible as you are describing it after all. ;) Teenagers are mostly still behaving well, yay.

  5. 14 hours ago, Clueless Northman said:

    French is harder, but of course it's easier to practice French than Latin. But then, you merely need to be able to read Latin, not to understand spoken Latin or to actually write or speak it. And even there, ancient Greek is tougher - same for Hebrew or Sanskrit, if only because they're farther away from current European languages. Of course, decent knowledge of English, Spanish or Italian (or even better, all three) helps a lot for French as well as for Latin (and knowledge of French helps for Latin, or the reverse).

    I actually took a few years of French in secondary school. I mostly remember grammar and writing, but cannot really understand spoken French because I never practised that a lot. I imagine Latin would be somewhat easier in connecting the spelling to the pronunciation. But I don't know about all the declensions and cases, although, as a speaker of a Slavic language, at least I know what those are and what they are used for.

  6. I already know Slovene, German and English. I wanted to take Latin at university, but all the classes clashed with my mandatory ones, so that wasn't possible, so I still want to try learning that at some point. Obviously the problem is, there aren't many courses for that. Apart from Latin, I would want to try Finnish. Sadly I haven't seen any courses offered for that either.

    Why these two? Latin because it is the root of a lot of modern European languages and just to see if it is really that hard as they say. Finnish fascinates me since I made a good friend from Finland during my Erasmus semester - the language is so different from the other European ones (and yet, the pronunciation rules actually look pretty simple for me).

    Neither of these languages would be useful in my day to day life in any way.

  7. On 9/22/2023 at 7:35 AM, Pebble thats Stubby said:

    it should be illeagal to go to work on morning shift and not only leave home but get to work when its still night.

    What about people who work from home?

    This was an eventful weekend! Way too short, I have to go to work tomorrow morning again, meh.

  8. 15 hours ago, HexMachina said:

    Mostly through passive aggressive corporate speak in my case.

     

    Case in point, signing off an email:

    "kind regards" - what it says on the tin.

    "regards" - now i'm angry

    "[name]" - I have just thrown my colleague out of a window

    That sounds ... passive aggressive.

    3 hours ago, Pebble thats Stubby said:

    nope talking about a baker dozen.  which for Bucky is 13  not 12.

    :o Why?

    In Slovene, using the unit "dozen" sounds very outdated. Nobody uses that as a unit of anything that I know of anymore. Even if things are sold in packages of 12, you would probably say "twelve eggs" than "a dozen eggs".

    In other news, we finished the meeting at work faster than I expected, which I am happy about.

  9. 10 hours ago, Pebble thats Stubby said:

    Its a challenge to @rocksnifferto name this thread something proper,  and a challenge to us to spam more!  :lear:

    I am not sure what King Lear has to do with it, but sure I can spam more. :leer: :leer:

    10 hours ago, Pebble thats Stubby said:

    Odd can be used as peculiar    or informally when estimating a number  eg      20 something odd   (meaning at least 20 but less than 30.  The bigger the initial number the bigger the number range with something odd)

    Yes, that is what I tried to convey - there were just over 20 teenagers in the group I was responsible for. (And a lot more of them in the other group the other teacher was responsible for.)

    9 hours ago, felice said:

    Though either way, being responsible for that many teenagers is a scary prospect!

    It is. I am lucky enough that my particular group of teenagers is generally quite responsible and they haven't done anything particularly outrageous in the two years I've taught them ... yet. *knocks on wood*

    In fact, I would find it much scarier to have to be responsible for younger children. At least the almost-grown-ups don't need micromanaging making their beds, getting dressed for the weather and activity, knowing what time it is etc. They mostly know how not to get lost and come to the right place at the time they were told to, and they are much more independent and able to problem solve on their own.

  10. 5 minutes ago, The BlackBear said:

    I'm sure you're not meant to call them odd.

    :o I just googled to check if I used the phrase right. Bad, bad Bear for making me doubt my language skills!

    Although, honestly, I do have trouble thinking of the right words to type right now. I think I should post on the board more to practice my English.

    Finally ... yes, what a funny joke. Ha. Ha. Ha. :P 

  11. On 8/27/2023 at 12:53 AM, Pebble thats Stubby said:

    What is spam never dies, but rises again stronger and spamier than before with added cheese.

    Hear hear! :commie: 

    On 8/27/2023 at 12:53 AM, Pebble thats Stubby said:

    Oh  I wonder if we can finish this thread before sniffer finishes his research and chooses the thread name.   If this was the old days that would be a no brainer.

    Is that a challenge for the old sniffer? @rocksniffer :leer: :leer: :leer: Have some extra leery emoticons for enouragement!

    On 9/1/2023 at 10:41 PM, The BlackBear said:

    Hey guys!

    How are you all doing?

    Hello, Bear! Good, glad to see you post in here!

    On 9/3/2023 at 11:08 PM, The BlackBear said:

    This here bear has been dealing with a bad back, because I'm an old man :(

    I am sorry to hear about that. :( 

    On 9/4/2023 at 2:06 AM, felice said:

    But in general, I've managed to be something less of a hermit recently and actually interact with other people more than I've done for years. This is probably good for me.

    Interaction with people in controlled amounts is good.

    On my end, the new school year just started on the 1st of September and I already survived a three-day sleepaway camp where I was responsible for 20-odd teenagers. That was exciting and rewarding most of the time, but also really exhausting.

  12. I just finished watching the second season of Good Omens. That was ... very unexpected.

    Spoiler

    I thought the first season (based on the book, of course) worked so well as a rounded-up story that I didn't have high expectations for the second one because I thought there wasn't much story to be told anymore ... and just like that, the second season was both a repeat of very similar messages from season 1 (the scenes from Aziraphale's and Crowley's past showing that morality is not black and white, that life on Earth is more about nuance etc.), and a completely different story at the same time, with only A. and C. appearing again. The characters in season 2 are fine, but I really expected to see more of Adam and gang, Anathema Device and Newt, Shadwell etc., not a completely new story that tried to be some weird love story with a Notting Hill-like background insead of the quirky Tadfield.

    In short, I haven't quite decided yet if I like it for what it is or if I am very disappointed because it is so different than the original (book and series 1).

  13. 3 hours ago, dog-days said:

    I must be remembering the library staff room of a university I used to work for. Everyone joked that it hadn't been redecorated since the library was built in the seventies – well, they'd joke, then they'd pause and say actually and look at the grimy brown carpet.

    Some of my older coworkers say they remember people smoking in the staff room a few decades ago. I cannot imagine that at all. Now we actually have a lovely decorated staff room and the whole building. And since my workplace is a secondary school (standing right next to a primary school!), there is a general prohibition of anybody smoking inside or outside on the school grounds.

  14. 15 hours ago, dog-days said:

    Good luck!  Hope they make the correct choice and employ you with multiple perks to keep you happy and motivated.

    Thank you! I hope so too.

    There are no perks though. These are all highly systemised public sector jobs. There is no such thing as negotiation for the pay or perks.

    15 hours ago, dog-days said:

     Applied for a job last week and didn't even make it to interview, but on balance I'm not disappointed, because my current job is better suited to me and interests me more, even if it has its frustrations. If HR gave me a large pay raise, and would let me work remotely thus closer to my hometown, I wouldn't be looking for another job at all.

    I hope they allow more remote work ij the future! Good luck.

  15. I became a lot more used to going to job interviews recently - I was on three of them in the past two weeks, and am going on another one on Friday. Today, I got one rejection (I expected that, since I haven't heard from them for two weeks, when they said they would inform the chosen candidate sooner) and one job offer, which is sadly the one I only applied to ... just because? It is in a very inconvenient location and also not as good a place to work at, I think. I need to wait for the two other places to decide (the one I interviewed at last week and the one I am going to on Friday).

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