{ off to the beach }

Dude, again with the Don/Charlie recs. Are you telling me there is no good gen fic in the Numb3rs fandom? Oh dear.

Well, xanitia and I are off to the beach today. Yay :) And, when I come back, it'll be the second part of the Spooks double!

{ passing through unconscious states }

Two weeks this Sunday, I move into Halls. Oh god. I need to buy stuff yet. Like a laptop (except I fear I have no money).

Went to Hunstanton today - much fun was had! Navigating, as ever, was stressful, especially considering the fact that I consider all routes to be an A-to-B job (everything is a straight line as far as I'm concerned) but xanitia is aware of my Straight Line Theorem and got us there (not to mention back) safely. There was one sign on the way which read 'Germans' --> which amused us greatly until we realised it actualky said 'St. Germans'.

Got there at around half nine and then spent two hours walking down Old Hunstanton beach which was lovely and quiet. There was a kite-flyer and many people with dogs but other than that, the beach was empty. It was fantastic. xanitia collected shells and then we had to get back to the car by wading through cold sea. Yay.

We walked down to the newer part of the town and walked up and down what I want to call the pier. However, I cannot do this because it is not a pier. We went to the SeaLife thing that was there. It was awesome; all the fishes and crabs and etcs. swimming about.

We ate in a little cafeteria place and then went back to the SeaLife place so that xanitia could go to the crab/anemones exhibition. She held a crab! I'm too squeamish for that, though. We had some ice cream, we bought candy floss and walked back to the car where we had to decide how to get back home. Got home around 6. It was a really nice day. xanitia also gave me a disk of photos from school so I'll post some of those later. I miss school but I'm still nerved up about heading to Southampton.

At this point, though, I'm more excited about the fact that Spooks 402 is on tonight! Eee! It's going to be so good. I can't wait!

{ superspies }

OMG SPOOKS. *iz ded*

No, I'm so not kidding. That was... have we had this good writing in the past two series? Because this is new and exciting and makes me ravenous for more. (Um, Thursday?! Are you BSing me, again?)

Do you think I can write fic? Hmm.

{ meme }

I love this meme. Gakked from kabutar. And I love this meme so much, forget five people, I tag you all! *TAGS*

Language Meme: Pick your 15 favorite words from each language you speak other than English, explain the meanings, and if you want to, why you like the words and/or give an example of use/context, and then tag 5 friends.

[01] quelquefois. [French] Meaning sometimes. Not only does quelquefois slip off the tongue so lightly and wonderfully, it's one of those brilliant words that translates directly from English to French and back again. Every sound corresponds to its same meaning in English. How awesome is that?

[02] izvinitye. [Russian] Meaning I'm sorry, or, more accurately, excuse me. I don't speak Russian but there are a few words I use in my own day-to-day speech from the language. This is one of them. Again, izvinitye is so much fun to say but also, it links to my Alias geekdom - I totally picked it out of fluent Russian dialogue in the S4 episode when Syd and Vaughn decide to play Desperate Housewives.

[03] kem. [Gujarati] Meaning why. Also, kyaa, meaning where. I don't speak Gujarati as fluently as I'd like to but better than a lot of my cousins, not to mention The Sister. That being said, I love that I can be talking to The Mother in English and switch over to Gujarati without even knowing that I'm doing it. Words like kem remind me that I'm truly bilingual, something I'm proud of.

[04] bien sur. [French] Meaning of course, of course. I use it all. the. time. It's a fun quirk.

[05] tortura. [Spanish] Meaning torture. You know, as in the song? Shakira, Alejandro? No, I don't speak Spanish. Yes, I can translate bits. Yes, I adore that song. Just say the word to yourself, the way the Spanish would. Isn't that a delightful sound? All those sharp 't' sounds, that rolling 'r'. *happy sigh* I also love the line the word comes from: Ay amor, me duelo tanto (Yes, love, it hurts me so).

[06] caramia. [Italian] Meaning darling, or, more literally, my love. No, I don't speak Italian, whatever tja_rama leads you to believe. Just say it. Remember to roll the 'r' ever so slightly. Another beautiful word with beautiful semantics.

[07] übermensch/mensch. [German] Meaning superhuman/human. The former, actually, is a concept put forward by Nietzsche, that of the natural human in the fullest sense of his being. The latter is the German for man, moreover, humans. I love the way Germans go into hypermode when they create neologisms, just bundling all the old words together. I also love the Germanic sounds that we have left in English (the most noticeable being 'sch'). They give such quality to the tongue.

[08] devka. [Polish] Meaning whore. A fantastic curse word that I learnt from tigertrapped who did her research when we co-wrote a fic early this year and came up with that Slavic gem. I use it all the time now, muttering it under my breath. It makes a change from calling people 'donkey' in Gujarati, is all I can say.

[09] machlu. (sp?) [Gujarati] Meaning little fish; also, jinglu, meaning little prawn. Both are terms of endearment for the very young (or the small). I use machlu towards Baby Cousin all the time and we still call my second youngest cousin (she's 11 now) jinglu.

[10] myska. [Russian] Meaning little mouse, pronounced 'mySHka'. Also, detka, meaning darling. Two lovely Russian terms of endearment. I especially love saying myska, for that 'ska' sound the Russians use so often.

[11] pardesi. [Hindi] Meaning foreigner; no, I don't speak Hindi. I have a hard time understanding it, too. This is one of my favourite Hindi words, though, not least because it reminds me of when we were actually in India. It was the title of a song from a film called Raja Hindustani that was very big when we went to India. Hearing Hindustanis say pardesi is wonderful because I'm pretty certain I get it wrong when I try.

[12] merde. [French] Curse word. You know what it means; if you don't, google it.

[13] nounca [Spanish] Meaning never. It's so fun to say! Especially is you stretch the vowel sounds. See also: nada. Have you heard the Spanish say this word? The way the 'd' is almost an 'r'? That's awesome!

[14] ha/ja/da. [Gujarati/German/Russian] Meaning yes. I love the way it's said, actually, and it's so easy to slip into conversation, unlike oui. No one says yes these days, always yeah. Ja has that marvellous German/European 'ye' sound; da is fantastically Russian. I also like the negatives: na, nyet, nein. Yes, I'm odd.

[15] wo sind..?. [German] A phrase meaning, where is..? Just listen to the words, the sounds. Make the 'w' a 'v', the 's' a 'z', the 'd' a 't'. OMG. 'Vo Szindt'. *dies* What a fabulous phrase!

I demand the flist participate. Even if you don't speak foreign languages, pick at leats one word. Pick an English word you like! Just spread this around. *geeky dance*