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A very relaxing weekend. Saturday was some grocery shopping, some NWN, and then into town to meet ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
olethros to travel on to microgirl's house for a dinner party. She was running a little late, but she has a chaise-longue, the second most gorgeous cat in the universe, and a wide selection of drinks, so all was well. Conversation varied all over the place, although a good bit of time was spent explaining various concepts to the one person there who hadn't heard of paganism before (and didn't really get the basics). Food was served and was excellent. And then we had to retire and sit around for a bit before dessert, which was similarly superlative.
Today I slept until almost 14:00. This is by way of being WAY late - usually even at weekends, we're up by eleven or noon. Some cleaning - mostly in the department of putting clean laundry away - and some reading of mail and the Rat Bastard DM's Club boards, and then we headed for two to find me a Swedish/English dictionary, which is huuuge and in my bag. Then across towyvernfriend's place, to await the arrival home of her husband, cos I wanted him to work out naval doctrine for flying ships for me. He's good at that sort of stuff, and was chortling and chuckling to himself as we left a couple of hours later.
Mention had arisen of sushi during the evening, so instead of heading straight home, we went in for Aya's Sushi-55. And after I finish poking around the net, I'll go learn some more Swedish.
olethros to travel on to microgirl's house for a dinner party. She was running a little late, but she has a chaise-longue, the second most gorgeous cat in the universe, and a wide selection of drinks, so all was well. Conversation varied all over the place, although a good bit of time was spent explaining various concepts to the one person there who hadn't heard of paganism before (and didn't really get the basics). Food was served and was excellent. And then we had to retire and sit around for a bit before dessert, which was similarly superlative.Today I slept until almost 14:00. This is by way of being WAY late - usually even at weekends, we're up by eleven or noon. Some cleaning - mostly in the department of putting clean laundry away - and some reading of mail and the Rat Bastard DM's Club boards, and then we headed for two to find me a Swedish/English dictionary, which is huuuge and in my bag. Then across to
wyvernfriend's place, to await the arrival home of her husband, cos I wanted him to work out naval doctrine for flying ships for me. He's good at that sort of stuff, and was chortling and chuckling to himself as we left a couple of hours later.Mention had arisen of sushi during the evening, so instead of heading straight home, we went in for Aya's Sushi-55. And after I finish poking around the net, I'll go learn some more Swedish.
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My Swedish knowledge is basically 'the puffin is on the coffee table with the fish soup' and various 'oh, really?' 'mmmm, right' type of conversational filler words...
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Swedish is proving to be a remarkably simple, compact langage - you form the negative of a verb using an adverb, for instance, and you can get a very long way with just the present tense of verbs.
My only real problem is actually remembering the vocabulary, and noticing the difference between "men" and "med", "bor" and "bör", and so on. And I can't remember how to pronounce "ö". I currently have it labelled as "something between eu and ey".
Mind you, the phrase "it's snowing" is "det snöar". I can't say - or even think "snöar" without giggling in a most undignified and unmanly fashion. It's such a bizarre sound.
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But I still prefer Mandarin. The lack of case structure is heavenly.