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Oops, I was so sleepy last night that I went to bed at 20:00, and I forgot to plug in my phone, so I woke to a very low battery, which will complicate my morning phone call.

Luckily, it turned out that today is the day he has am appointment at the local health center to look at the foot that has been hurting, so I was able to let it charge while I packed To get ready to head to the bus, so it was over 60% before I had to go.

I had a good day at work, but Keldor had grumpy day. He thought he had booked an appointment with a doctor, and had written down in the online form the three things he wanted to accomplish: a blood test to screen for prostate cancer, checking the foot that has been hurting, and look at the ugly growth on his skin. It turns out that what he got was an appointment with the same physical therapist he saw last time about the foot, and they had no new ideas, and suggested he try calling to see if he can get an appointment with a doctor instead. He called, left the voice mail, and an hour or so later got a call back. The part that makes him grumpy is that apparently he can’t actually request the prostate cancer test himself—if he has symptoms he can make an appointment with a doctor, and if they agree that the symptoms are concerning, then they do the test. Given that we lost a friend to prostate cancer which wasn’t caught early enough, we don’t much like this protocol, and think it should be a routine test, the same way mammograms and pap smears are. Why wait for symptoms? by then it could be too late.

After work I spent the evening, and way too late into the night dealing with Shire financial paperwork. I had to learn how to do “bokslut” (the closing of the books at the end of the year, which turns out to be a very easy task in GnuCash), and while I was at it, I cleaned up the accounts by deleting accounts that had never been used, and moving those which haven’t been used in a log time to a folder called not used anymore, and updated my readme file explaining what the various accounts are accordingly (this eliminated the last of the “no idea what this is” comments in the readme file)

Then I prepared all of the reports needed for the shire Annual Meeting on Sunday, and sent them to our “revisor” (person who checks to see if I did everything correctly, in this case, the last Exchequer) and to the Seneschal. now it is closing in on 03:00, and I really should do some more yoga and head to bed.

En kul historia från min morgon…

Jag sitter på bussen, ta ut min banan och vitaminer, åta dem, och sträcka armen över ryggstödet för att kasta bananskalen i papperskorgen som är monterade vid sidan av trappan. Men papperskorgen lutade liten åt sidan, och trycket från bananskalens slaget efter den hastiga nedstigningen gjorde att papperskorgen lutade ännu mera, och sin innehåll (bananskalen) ramlade ur, och fortsatte vidare mot golvet.

Då såg jag framför mig att nästa personen som skulle stiga på bussen skulle möta sitt slut genom att halka på ett bananskal. Därför ställde jag datorn och grejer åt sidan och tog mig upp från sätet och ner trappen, var jag fick veta att det är en jättebra design, eftersom banan hade ramlade precis i papperskorgen som stå under och lite till sidan av den jag siktade på.

Men nu sitter”min” papperskorgen ordentligt i sitt hållare, och lutar inte alls, så den nästa som har skrap att kasta inte behöver ha så mycket tur som jag hade!

Vilken snälla dåtid-jag jag har!

Min dåtid jag lämnade mig snacks på kontoret! jag har en burk pumpafrön med skäl (det har vi varit slut på hemma i flera veckor), och en burk hemgjord kex, och en glasburk smör som har suttit i mitt kyl kista under skrivbordet och smaker fortfarande bra, så sedan jag kom i till kontoret har jag ätit lite pumpafrön och kex med smör. Jag hoppas att ni också få något lite som detta som fick din dag att vara lite bättre!

energi tog slut ganska tidigt

Jag hade energi under hela jobbdagen, och jobbade utan problem tills bussen var nästan framme i Lövånger. Då packade upp mina grejer och tog sparken hemma och sätta mig på soffan tills Keldor ringde. Under tiden han körde hem hunn jag äntligen tomma kisten av käader vi tog till eventet, men då var dagens energi slut, och jag var i säng redan kl 20,00 och sov direkt.

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Today was a work from home day, as I had that doctor’s appointment that I should have gone to last week, but lost track of the days of the week, and saw the calendar reminder 20 minutes after I should have been there.

So I did the meeting to discuss the funding application for the workshop we want to run in October over zoom, and got good input, and should be able to get the application done on time.

Then the doc appointment, they said that the weird hard lump on back of my arm that I can’t quite see doesn’t look concerning

Then a long lunch break, followed by work, including a meeting with a colleague in the states to discuss ways to liik at database structure. These meetings may result in a paper. With luck it might even get my colleague’s thesis kickstarted back into progress again.

This evening was the Nordmark members meeting over zoom, and after our zoom training session.

Then I stayed up too late, and ought to go to sleep, as tomorrow I have to go into the office for the first time in weeks.

I expected to sleep in after yesterday’s road trip, but woke at 05:34, so I got up, fed the cats, did a 15 min pilates, took my morning vitamin, and decided that I was awake enough to work for a while, so I put in 4 hours, then took an hour nap, enjoyed lunch and a game of Qwirkle with Keldor, and then resumed work while he made a new knife handle.

After work I made salad, a pear crumble (which I will eat tomorrow as it was too late to be interested in eating by the time it was done), and did some sewing. Now I have done my yoga and ought to get some sleep.

Left site ~ 09:40
Malby 10:24
Gävle 12:50
Tönnebro 13:40
Timmerå 16:00
Örnsköldsvik 17:53
home 21:26
mostly unpacked, 22:19

saw one moose, which was more animals than we saw on the way south

breakfast
market
meetings & lunch
more market
court fealty by language
serve feast
music
partial cleaning of hall
pack
yoga just after midnight & sleep

We had planned to leave at 05:00, and Keldor figured that he would need only his normal 15 minutes to go from the alarm rings to out the door. So I set the dawn light to 05:40, and hoped I would wake early enough for a quick pilates, so my hips wouldn’t hurt later.

This worked well enough that I managed a four minute session before his alarm. However, even though we had packed everything last night, it was still 05:18 before we had the last things in place, cats fed, etc and we actually started driving.

Luckily, that meant that Angelika was also ready, and we had picked her up and started driving south at 05:25

We dropped off Angelika with Maria and Matts in Umeå, and continued south 07:05

Quick stop at Örnsköldsvik for a toilet at 08:30.

Timmerå 10:37, picked up Charlotte.

Tönnebro 13:06

One more stop at a random gas station , somewhere.

On site 16:59.

Check in for those of us in crash space was delayed due to last minute change in plans. The site owners decided that we were too many to sleep dormitory style in one house due to there not being tjat many toilets, so there were some emergency reshuffleing, which resulted in we four from Reengarda who were in crash space being assigned to the boat house, which is a long way away from the other houses.

So we drove out there, unloaded everything we needed to have there and settled in (this house has a refrigerator, so I emptied the ice chest into it, and put the ice in the freezer). Then we got dressed, gathered the things we’d need on site, and drove back over to the main castle area, then walked down to the house where dinner was served so the others could eat.

Then we moved over to the main hall and hung out chatting with people, and sewing,till time for court, which I enjoyed. Lots of good awards for well deserving people, the incoming Kings looked magnificent in their matching garb.

After court four musicians started playing violin, so I hung out sewing, dancing, and chatting till qiute late, then I walked back to the boathouse with Keldor’s sister and we did yoga today before heading to bed at about 02:30. An hour and a half later, I got up, went downstairs to the loo, and found poor Keldor who had been awake for 23 hours, trying to deal with the drain on the bathroom floor. He had started to shower, but as soon as the water went down the drain the toilet backed up and spit icky water all over the floor.

So I sent the event stewards an email letting them know, and went straight back to sleep

While we often leave for roadtrips to southern Sweden already on Thursday evening, this time Keldor decided that we would leave super early Friday instead. Given that there is some serious snowstorm and winds happening today, especially in the Sundsvall area, where they had thunder and lightning with the snow, but most of the extreme weather warnings are for Thursday and not Friday, this is likely a good thing.

So today started with my getting the last of the cutting for the Keldor copper trim tunic done so it is ready to sew this weekend. Then packing and organising, with breaks for food, and chores like washing the cat’s water fountain.

Now it is later than I should still be up, given that we want to pick up Angelika at 05:00.

I had planned to get up early and start laundry. I managed half of these, but the first load didn’t get in the machine till almost 09:09. I also planned to do my morning workout while it ran, but the time needed to run that load vanished to writing 2026-01-06 book review, The King’s Dragon and scrolling a bit.

Keldor went in to town to use the workshop at work to finish projects for friends we will see this weekend, and I got the last of the small final pieces for the Silk bliaut short tunic cut out. I think I can easily finish the sewing during the drive to 12th Night on Friday.

I was busy enough that I didn’t get to my workout at all till time for the evening zoom workout with friends.

In between errands and computer stuff I finished reading The King’s Dragon by Kate Elliott. I started it at least a week ago (when I did my first log entry for tracking reading, but was already 200 pages in, so I strongly suspect I just failed to mske a note of it). I remember that I bought the book much longer ago than that, but after downloading the app complained that I needed to activate some sort of Adobe security thing, which I had previously activated for another book, and it just didn’t work, so I gave up and forgot about it for weeks, till I bought another book for school that had a similar issue, and when i solved it, by getting yet another book app, the new book app worked for this one too.

However, the delay between purchasing and access means that I have long since whose recommendation got me to buy it, and what they said that got me past my inherent reluctance to buy stuff. Whatever it was, it didn’t warn me about how very, very unpleasant huge parts of the story are, with abusive people being abusive. I almost didn’t finish due to that aspect early on, but decided to persevere, as somewhere, somewhen, someone whose opinion I respect had said something good about the book.

I am still not sure what that praise might have been. Our viewpoint characters experience many very unpleasant things, and at no time did I wish I could live in this world, which is full of religious fanatics, sexism, class opression, and callousness. Yah, sure, the sexism is packaged a little different than is the world we live in, as power and inheritance is more through the female line, but it is still very unpleasant.

Like many classic fantasy books, this one focuses on young people who are raised to believe they are unimportant and outside the established power structure, and by the end of this book at least one is revealed to be very much part of it after all, and the other has been set up to soon be significant in kingdom scale politics.

I have always been an addicted re-reader, loving to go back to books now that I know the overall framework of the story to pick up the details and connections I missed on the first pass, and to learn who everyone is. Especially for a book like this one, where the viewpoint characters don’t cross paths till late in the book, so there are double the number of people to try to kerp track of. However, I don’t know if I am willing to go back and read through those abusive bits again. Once feels like too many, and one can’t un-read to get the bad taste out of the brain.

If you can ignore that aspect and enjoy major political upheaval, battles and betrayal, this might be a book for you.

I woke up this morning to a notification that I clicked on. I don’t remember what that one was, but as soon as FB presented whatever it was, I saw a post by Anne Marie Decker of https://nalbound.com/, saying she will be attending the Roman Archaeology Conference (RAC/TRAC 2026) in Denmark. so, of course, I sent a note wondering if she’d also want to come to Umeå University and present at our department seminar. She said that it sounds interesting, so after my morning workout I sent an introduction email to Ivanka, our seminar coordinator this term. I hope it works out, it would be lovely to see her. Even better if we can find museums in the north with nålbindning fragments we could go look at when she is here. Since I was sitting at the computer anyway, I got ChatGPT’s help to add properties to the GitHub version of my blog , since I had them in Obsidian. In the process I tried linking to my notes (adding properties), which file is not in the content part of this blog, and that caused an error message for the missing file such that the blog wouldn’t post at all. So I tried making that an external link to the obsidian URL, and now the link works fine, for me, and if I click on it, from within the blog it will open obsidian and display that page. However, I assume that anyone reading my blog will get an error message, unless they happen to have an obsidian vault with the exact same name and file path.

By the time I got the blog working Keldor was up and had eaten breakfast, so I grabbed a quick lunch, packed food for later, and we went into town, where we bought some things for the car and I picked up some fresh vegetables for a salad. Then we went to his job workshop and I borrowed the kitchen to make the salad while he changed burned out bulbs and checked fluid levels of everything that needed checking. Then he washed the outside of the van while I vacuumed the inside, whiped down surfaces, and sorted out stuff that shouldn’t be there.

Then we waxed the car and made certain it was dry before heading back into the -15⁰ C weather. Now the car is ready for the drive to Drachenwald 12th Night Coronation on Friday.

After we got home and put everything away I spent some time figuring out how to create some of the year-end financial reports for the shire. I will need to get help from Þórólfr for the others, when he is over his cold.

Snowflake Challenge #3

Write a love letter to fandom. It might be to fandom in general, to a particular fandom, favourite character, anything at all.

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Slept eight hours, thought I should get up, take my morning vitamins, and do some training. Saw a notification that I had a reply from the contractor who will help create a half bathroom in the attic, so looked at that, then looked at other notifications, and suddenly well over an hour had elapsed. Oops.

So I got up, fed the cats, ate a banana with my morning vitamins and did a 25 minutes HIT session before checking to see if Keldor was willing to get up yet. He was, so we played Qwirkle over breakfast, and then we decided to make a batch of naan bread with a cheese filling (inspired by a reel we’d seen yesterday, that he thought sounded extra tasty).
naanbr�d

While we were cooking, I suddenly decided to post a photo to the Lövånger SCA chat group, asking if anyone wanted to drop by to help us eat them, and Bröder Suk thought it sounded like a good idea, and did. This is the first time since creating the chat some weeks back that it has been used for a spur of the moment invite, and it worked! If I keep doing this now and then, when I am making something in quantity to share, perhaps it will begin to seem normal, and others might decide to do the same. One never knows…

Then we spent the rest of the day working on projects. I am slowly getting my Silk bliaut short tunic together, and solving the last of the problems caused by cutting it wrong in teh first place. Now I have a couple of minutes before our evening zoom yoga session, though several people have checked in to say they can’t make it today.

Slept in, did an hour of pilates and yoga, andthen curled up with a book and a small batch of popcorn (popped in the popcorn popper, with only a hint of butter with nutritional yeast and the last of the salad (spinach, cucumber, tomato, carrot, avocado).

Then I made some progress on my sewing, till Keldor popped a huge batch popcorn on the stove, using a generous amount of both oil and butter, to which he added salt and garlic powder, and sat down next to me. Of course, I packed my sewing away to keep the silk out of reach of the popcorn oils, and then I helped him eat it. This wasn’t wise, but sometimes reading and eating is too irresistible, especially when the junk version of the food simply appears within reach, with no effort on my part.

Not surprisingly, I took a nap afterwards. Then, after we washed hands an popcorn dishes, I resumed sewing for a while, till Keldor decided that it was time to die his hair again, so I put it away, carefully untangled his hair, and he disappeared to do wrap his hair in conditioning dye, and then soak in the bathtub while it worked. I should have resumed sewing, or done something useful. Instead I made the mistake of glancing at FB, and fast-forwarded myself past his bath time with no awareness of time elapsed.

He joined me on the couch for a bit of more scrolling, but this time occasionally sharing something interesting with the other, and then we did yoga and went to bed.

Pot roast in the oven, lentils started on the stove for meal prep ... can relax again.

In another two-week-wait! I had to drive to Syracuse on Tuesday for the IUI, and it was not so bad getting there but terrible coming home, particularly after I charged the car for ~45 mins. Couldn't get anything for lunch because everywhere in and around Syracuse was closed due to the storm. I'm hoping that the "this will make a great 'where you came from' story someday" factor is on my side.

About a week ago, I started writing a new Regency romance, and it's going SO well. I partly attribute this to all of the practice (something like 450k words on AO3 over the past four years, plus several personal projects), but partly to the amount of deconstruction I've done on KJ Charles just this year. The former's made it so I can write more smoothly and the latter's helped me figure out how to plot well enough to not end up going "uhhh my outline says 'they get to know each other better' for this chapter" which then contributes to more smooth writing. I've given myself a minimum of 500 words a day and hitting it isn't really a problem? I've only just hit chapter three, so maybe I'm still in the easy-to-write-because-it's-new zone, but it feels different. Well, I guess Grand & Glorious and Arrow Collar Man were similar, it's just that the last original thing I started was a different Regency story that got stuck due to poor plotting (pre-KJ Charles) and also I had some fandom obligations at the end of the year that I didn't really want to write, so I haven't had the feeling of a story just WORKING for months.

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It is 20° this morning. It's not supposed to get too much warmer -- only to 26°, though it's supposed to gradually warm up all week and possibly even hit the low 50s on Saturday. January Thaw time.

Yesterday, there were flakes in the air occasionally, but they were kind of lackadaisical about it and there was no accumulation. Toward evening, there was even almost sunshine, which was nice.

The day did not go the way I had hoped. I went out for groceries early and was home by 7:30. You can tell it's getting on toward inventory time, because the shelves at WickedMart were bare in a lot of places. The Christmas stuff is all gone, of course, and there isn't enough Valentine's Day stuff to fill in the gaps. I did pick up a new hair dryer, though there wasn't much choice about it. Here's what I want in a hair dryer: small (because my arms aren't long enough for a full-size one), preferably three temperature settings and two speed settings. The one that sparked at me the other morning was a Revlon travel dryer. They apparently no longer make it...because of course they don't. The one that I did purchase was not what I wanted, so when I went out again to pick up my prescription, I took it back to WickedMart and chose a different one...which seems like it's going to be too big; the barrel is at least an inch, possibly two inches, longer than the previous one. So then I started searching online, which is why I figured out that they don't make what I really wanted anymore. Remington does have a model that seems to be what I want, but that, also, appears to not be being made any longer as it is out of stock on Remington's own site, though it was available on Amazon.

BFT says she uses a profesional Conair dryer. I'm not willing to pay that much for a hair dryer.

I have not yet returned the second dryer that I bought at WickedMart, so perhaps I will try it out first, since it does at least fulfill the three heat/two speed requirement, even if it's too big.

In any case, after the internet failed me, I ended up going out again. I checked Ollie's, Marshall's, and CVS to see what they carried. CVS at least had a Conair that I had been considering, so I was able to open the box and look at it and determine that it wasn't suitable. That sucker was heavy for a hair dryer. I considered BJ's, but decided not to stop because by that time, the Saturday crowds were out in force. (Also, Marshall's was practically empty, given how much stock they had crowded into that tiny store for Christmas.)

I was a bit out of sorts when I got home, but I have discovered (rediscovered?) the simple joy of Campbell's tomato soup. For years, I have bought Progresso's tomato-basil soup for tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwich dinners, but I am thinking that after all this time, I do prefer the Campbell's. It's warm and comforting and there's probably some nostalgia involved, since we always had it in the house when I was a kid. I add some rice and eat it with Ritz crackers when I'm not in the mood for making a grilled cheese sandwich. Yum! (And that way, a single can gives me three lunches. I prefer to add my own rice rather than buy the tomato-rice version.)

There was a completely cat-free nap (kind of disappointing, but they were both upstairs on the bed when I laid down on the couch).

I called MyAuntie around late afternoon and we talked for three hours. I'd say that's a record for us, but it's really not. We generally talk anywhere from two and a half to three hours. We certainly never talk for less than two hours. And usually when I go out there, I'll sit down at the dining room table for lunch, and we'll still be sitting there yacking come dinner time.

I floated the idea of going out there in May and September this year in addition to my regular July visit and she was enthusiastic about it. Since I get the maximum amount of vacation time due to my longevity at the agency, I still have two weeks of vacation left going into this year, and by the end of next month, I'll already have another week. I would still like to spend two weeks at a time out there, but can't leave the cats on their own (even with twice-daily visits from my sister or BFT) for that amount of time.

Today, I really have no plans. My vacation-week do list is glaring balefully at me, but it's too late now. Maybe I'll just spend the day reading. After two Snowflake Challenge challenges, I am already realizing the impossibility of keeping up with reading others' challenge responses, especially after I go back to work tomorrow. Ah, well. It is ever thus.

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Challenge #2: Pets of Fandom

Loosely defined! Post about your pets, pets from your canon, anything you want!

My pets have actually just celebrated their first Gotcha Day with me; I adopted them on New Year's Eve 2024. They are two black cats that I adopted from the SPCA.

Parker:

Parker is about five years old now, all black, except for a scattering of stray white hairs on his chest and belly, neither of which is enough to even think about calling a patch. He has amber eyes. He is exceedingly regal, except when he doesn't want to be. He hasn't done it for a while, but he used to like to jump into the bathtub and chase his tail.

Tegan:

Tegan is a tuxedo girlie with a ridiculous white Mr. Pringle mustache. At the shelter, she was named Meghan Trainor, and after calling her Miss Meghan and Miss T for a week, I decided that her name was probably Tegan, instead. She is about two years old now, and she is the miracle kitty -- she was brought into the shelter partially paralyzed from being hit by a car, but while they were discussing what to do with her, she got up and started walking again.

Of the two, Parker is probably the braver one -- right after I let them both go in my basement after bringing them home, I found him two floors up in my bedroom. Tegan, meanwhile, didn't come out of the basement for more than a week. On the other hand, she is also the one who mastered the kitty fountain, while Parker still seems to prefer the plastic bubblers from WalMart.

Parker is definitely more aloof, but when he wants attention, he lets it be known. I was just talking to my aunt on the telephone, and he insisted on being held the whole time.

Tegan is shy around strangers, but if I sit down anywhere other than my desk, she is right there demanding her due. If I want to sit down to read, I have to make sure that there's a pillow in my lap to prop the book on, otherwise there's Tegan. If Parker wants attention while I'm reading, though, he'll just climb onto my chest and get in the way of the book.

Both of them:

They play together occasionally, but they don't curl up together at all. This is the closest I have seen them when not playing, or when both of them aren't trying to sit on me at the same time.

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This morning I started my day with an hour of yoga, followed by breakfast and snow shovelling. The snow is fluffy and easy to move. However, it is not at all suited to filling in the low spots where tire tracks in the mud froze because I didn’t have the energy to go change into boots and trample the tracks flat on the last warm day before it froze again. I regret this decision.

After lunch Keldor and I walked over to the gas station (also the local post office) to get a package that was delivered there. The first person I saw when I entered was Anna, an SCA friend from Luleå. It turns out that she had been on her way home, and got as far as where the road is closed due to a serious bus accident, just north of here, and they decided to turn back and use the loo at the gas station while they waited for the road to reopen.

So, of course, we invited them over for ficka. As luck would have it, we still had some of the Gluten-free vegan smjulpaj from when Hjalmar visited, so Anna could eat it. I love spur of the moment guests, and it is even better when we have appropriate snacks on hand.

After they left I resumed work on Silk bliaut short tunic until it was time for my zoom meeting with

katerit, who gave me helpful feedback on the story I have written for

hrj ’s Call for Submissions: 2026 Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Fiction Series. It was really good to see her, it has been far, far too long, and the feedback was very useful. I may not have accomplished everything she suggested, but the story was much improved by the time I was happy with it, and sent it in. Heather may or may not like my contribution, but I know that she will be pleased that she is getting still more submissions already the first week, so that is a little thing I did to try to brighten the world today.

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The Icebreaker Challenge: Introduce yourself. Tell us why you're doing the challenge, and what you hope to gain from it.

Why are introductions always the hardest part?

I'm

malinaldarose. I have been online since the early '90s in varous guises. I am currently in my late 50s, which makes me an Authentic Fandom Old, especially if one counts that my first fic was written...some forty-five years ago. (It was original flavor The Tomorrow People. I also crossed original Star Trek with Doctor Who (the...fourth Doctor, if I recall correctly).) (No, I'm never going to share any of it.) I live in western NYS, about a mile from where I was born. It's rather snowy here at the moment. I live with two black cats. I love chocolate. No matter how hard I try, I cannot seem to acquire a taste for tea. This is something of a disappointment to me, since my visions of my future always involve a steaming cup of tea.

I read mainly fantasy, with the occasional sci fi, cozy mystery, or autobiography. I am usually behind on TV series and movies, because I don't have cable anymore (too expensive). I'm still catching up on '90s and early '00s stuff! (Thank goodness for DVDs and streaming.) The only thing I'm usually up to date on is Doctor Who. (Capaldi is my current favorite Doctor; my favorite Companions are Sarah Jane and Donna Noble. When I was a kid, my favorite Doctor was Peter Davison and my favorite Companion...was probably still Sarah Jane.) I'm a Trekkie from way back -- my favorite episode first aired the day after I was born, and I got into the show when I was in junior high or thereabouts.

I am currently learning French on Duolingo (over a 1,000-day streak) and beginning to wonder if there is anyone in town with whom I could practice speaking. I was learning German, right up to the point where I realized that I was going to need more than Duolingo could give me, and stopped to focus on French, which I already had a grounding in, since I studied it in college. (Which is to say that I crammed four years into two and a half because I changed my major in my junior year.) I would actually kind of like to start a local language club, but am not sure how to go about doing it.

This will be my third or fourth Snowflake Challenge. I'm doing it mainly because it's fun...and that's pretty much what I'm hoping to gain from it. Just some fun. And meeting fun new people, of course.

(Also, I like using the old banners from previous Challenges.)

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