Spiteful Study

Clearly we're all very busy, so let's motivate each other to get through April with a productivity challenge! Here's how it'll work:

Make a tumblr post listing all your goals for April, like this. It can also include a little introduction about yourself.

Use the tag "april days of productivity" for every post.

Starting on April 1st, do one small thing everyday that brings you closer to achieving your goals. You can post about it everyday, or every few days.

Once you've achieved a goal, update the tumblr post from step 1! You can strike through your goal, or anything else to show you're done with it!

On the 30th of April we'll congratulate ourselves for getting through this together! <3

Reblog this post if you'd like to participate, and comment if you have any questions!

Things to do this week:

Finalize partner & cat move-in

Register cat at new vet's clinic

Obtain litter, ventilated cat toilet box, collar, possibly a harness and leash for cat

Obtain academic documentation

Pay rent

Update utility company on number of household residents

Reschedule cooking practice with friend from Saturday 7th to Sunday 8th

Attend a workshop for managing family violence on Saturday 7th

Schedule appointments for: haircut, doctor consultations x3, academic consultations x1, workplace consultations x1

📚 Target weekly study log: 5 - 8 hours

📖 Weekly reading target: 50 pages

Finalize partner & cat move-in

Register cat at new vet's

Obtain litter & ventilated cat toilet box & collar & optional harness + leash for cat

Obtain academic documentation

Pay rent

Update utility company on number of household residents

Reschedule cooking practice with friend from Sat 7th to Sun 8th

Attend a workshop about handling family violence on Sat 7th

Schedule appointments: haircut, medical consultations x3, academic consultations

Workplace consultations

Finalize partner & cat move-in

Register cat at new vet's -> getting conflicting vet recs. more research needed

Obtain litter

Obtain ventilated cat toilet box, leash & harness

Obtain academic documentation -> administrative slowness be administrating

Pay rent

Update utility company on number of household residents

Have cooking practice with friend on Sun 8th

Attend workshop about handling family violence on Sat 7th

Schedule haircut, doctors' appointments, academic consultations

Workplace consultations

Things to do this week:

Finalize partner & cat move-in

Register cat at new vet's clinic

Obtain litter, ventilated cat toilet box, collar, possibly a harness and leash for cat

Obtain academic documentation

Pay rent

Update utility company on number of household residents

Reschedule cooking practice with friend from Saturday 7th to Sunday 8th

Attend a workshop for managing family violence on Saturday 7th

Schedule appointments for: haircut, doctor consultations x3, academic consultations x1, workplace consultations x1

📚 Target weekly study log: 5 - 8 hours

📖 Weekly reading target: 50 pages

Finalize partner & cat move-in

Register cat at new vet's

Obtain litter & ventilated cat toilet box & collar & optional harness + leash for cat

Obtain academic documentation

Pay rent

Update utility company on number of household residents

Reschedule cooking practice with friend from Sat 7th to Sun 8th

Attend a workshop about handling family violence on Sat 7th

Schedule appointments: haircut, medical consultations x3, academic consultations

Workplace consultations

Here is the fudgiest brownie in a mug recipe I’ve found

Here are some fun sites

Here is a master post of Adventure Time episodes and comics

Here is a master post of movies including Disney and Studio Ghibli

Here is a master post of other master posts to TV shows and movies

*tucks you in with fuzzy blanket* *pats your head*

Here’s an emergency compliment

Here you can play 2048

Here’s a playlist of Bob ross

Here’s a website to watch movie’s and shows for free

Here’s a website to watch documentaries for free

Here you can to nothing for two minutes

Here you can break something. It’s good for anger

Here’s a button to press to make everything okay

Here’s a site to cut something up (TRIGGER WARNING)

Here’s a site that makes you a website depending on a song you choose

Here’s a gay comic. It’s adorable

Here you can spend Bill Gate’s money

Here you can draw your own island

Here you can learn about patterns website’s use

Here you can get your life stats

Here you can listen to the Tucker Zone (Headphones needed)

Here you can see how fast you’re moving

Here you can see the progress of time

Here’s the butterfly project

Here’s a snickerdoodle mug cake

Here’s a link to some free audiobooks

Here’s something to read when you feel like a burden

Here’s a secret

Here’s my playlist of some sea shanties 

Here’s another secret

Here’s a link to some cool websites 

Here’s a blog that gives you recipes for when you’re low on spoons

Here’s 100,000 stars

Here you can control the weather (TW FLASHING IMAGES)

Here you can weave silk

Here you can make a castle of your own

Here you can make a kaleidoscope drawing

Here you can explore recursion

Here you can draw with pasta

Here you can draw logo’s from memory

Here you can play this is sand, here you draw cool sand designs

Here you can play The Organ Trail

Here’s a customizable white noise website

Here you can simulate gravity

Here you can create your own guardian of the galaxy

Here you can make your own galaxy

Here you can have images of people point to where your pointer is

Here you can paint someone’s nails

Here you can grow a garden across your screen (Audio included)

Here you can try out all kinds of mind illusions (Trigger Warning: Flashing Lights)

Here you can see how many miles you have scrolled

Here you can watch a website load forever, although you might be getting enough of this on Tumblr mobile

Here’s a rickroll

Here you can remind yourself that you’re awesome.

Here you can throw trash into a dustbin only for it to bounce right back out (Audio included)

Here you can make sand dunes using sand (Audio included)

Here you can listen to a gentle rainstorm

Here you can make snowflakes

Here is a Line Rider feature film with relaxing music

Here is the entire script to the Princess Bride (many don’t need it but it’s fun to read anyway)

Here is an abbreviated script for the entirety of Book 1 of A:TLA that I made out of anger at the film that definitely doesn’t exist

Here is a playlist of the top 10 most relaxing songs ranked according to science

Does this say:

"How great is the very beginning/the starting stage of learning a foreign language! You understand much better/much more than you (would) expect, but at the same time you practically always rely on context clues"

For the ones I couldn't immediately instinctively match I tried deducing what they might mean by taking the sound apart at (what I thought might be) the syllable boundaries, then attempting to identify the concept behind the lexical code and look for a suitable match in Serbian and English conceptually, rather than phonetically. This helped with

a) "опираешься" which I don't know in itself but shares elements with the Serbian words for "resisting" and "pushing away" and "bracing against" - now what do all those have in common? the notion of leaning against something with some degree of purposeful force - what do we call something we lean against in Serbian? we call it "oslonac" - we also have a verb derived from that noun and it means "to rely on" - so let's go with that! and

b) "прикольная" which I've never encountered before but it vaguely resembles the Serbian "priklanjanje" - the process of becoming aligned with something, as an opinion or an authority - which again stems from the verb "to bow" - but there is nothing to bow to, per se, in this context - so what is something we bow to generally? it is something powerful, or impressive - what words do I know for "powerful/impressive/worth bowing to" that would fit here? I know "greatness" - it might mean "great" - check against the whole - feels like a good fit, let's go with that! and

c) "ожидаешь" which is entirely unfamiliar to me and doesn't remind me of anything much, except tenuously for the Serbian verb "zidati" meaning "to build", specifically to build with bricks and mortar, like one does a house. Having previously decoded the rest of the text as described, I asked myself what one might "build" in this context. "Expectation", something we often metaphorically build up, is the only notion that naturally fits.

опираться does in fact have a doublet in russian - опора, which means something you lean on, a support. usually like a physical thing. so good thinking there with the oslonac analogy!

unfortunately for прикольная that is just my heritage speaker brain latching on to the one hiP yoUth WOrd i know. you got vibes, if not the etymology, right, it's some sort of positive adjective, but i can't even define it. wiktionary says it can mean funny/amusing/curious, and i guess that could be it, but i meant it in an even more positive way than just curious or amusing. 2.5 priklanjanje sounds like it should mean something that you apply to something to me. we have the verb прикладывать which means to put something against something. and yes the root word is also where we get our word for 'bow' (кланяться) from! that one has other derived terms that have to do with bending/sloping- like наклон, for example, which means slope.

oh what a shame, our words for 'wait' or 'anticipate' or 'expect' don't seem to match. here you used the wrong formula and got the right answer XD

it was super fun to read your thought process!

Gripa je bolest od koje čovek zaglupi. Toliko kijam i duvam nos da će mi mozak iscureti u maramicu. Ionako jedva imam vremena za učenje, a sad jedva da imam i sivih ćelija.

i do admit i searched up what sounds c, ć, and č make. else i would've gone insane. but that's all, the rest of the sounda i guessed, to keep the method similar to yours.

>> Gripa je bolest od koje čovek zaglupi.

off to a good start, i think. my guess is that this means:

"the flu is an illness that makes a person stupider."

in awkward russian (serbianly romanized to the best of my ability for the benefit of anybody else reading this, to maximize resemblance) i can imagine this would sound like:

)) Grip jest' bolezn' ot kotoroj čelovek glupejet.

or in not awkward russian (where i use more natural wording, but unfortunately makes it less close to the serbian)

)) Grip -- bolezn' ot kotoroj čelovek stanovica glupym.

>> Toliko kijam i duvam nos da će mi mozak iscureti u maramicu.

here is where my bravado disintegrates. i don't recognize some of these words at all, and i can't even tell what part of speech some are. some of the parts of speech though i can take a good guess at:

"I only [?]ed and blew my nose [?] [?] [?] [?] to [?] at the [?]"

)) Tol'ko [singular, masc? past tense verb] i dul nos [?] [?] [?] [?] [infinitive verb] u [noun in locative/genitive case]

>> Ionako jedva imam vremena za učenje, a sad jedva da imam i sivih ćelija.

i am struggling. sad could mean yard. or it could be a false cognate. ćelija looks so close to celaja which means whole, but is that how sound changes really worked historically? they made the alveolar into a postalveolar? the vibes tell me no. but it's the only guess i have. and as for 'sivih'. it sounds like a plural noun in genitive case but on the other hand that doesn't seem to work with the words around it. otherwise i'd expect maybe like 'sivih ćelih' or smth...

"[?] I barely had the time for studies, and I barely had the yard a whole [?]"

)) [adverb?] jedva imel vremeni na učobu, a sad jedva [?] imel i [plural noun, genitive case?] whole

what is thia 'da' particle!! i feel like if i knew it i'd increase my comprehension by like 10%. cause in russian, other than meaning 'yes' ofc, 'da' is like a functional morpheme. some sort of intensifying particle i can't define.

and finally, throughout the whole paragraph i kept waiting for corroborating evidence on what i interpreted as the thesis statement- that the flu makes a person stupider. but i only underatood one thing related to cognitive abilities though, and that was that you didn't study. but you didn't due to lack of time! having less time is a whole other effect of the flu unrelated to diminishing mental ability. i hope the rest of the words will make things click for me once i find out what they mean...

As for what the paragraph means, it's this: "The flu is an illness that makes one dumber. I am sneezing and blowing my nose so much that my brain is going to leak out into the handkerchief. I barely have the time to study anyway, now I also barely have the gray cells [literal]/ gray matter [closer natural equivalent in English]."

Basically I made a joke at my own expense: due to the flu I am blowing my nose so often & sneezing so much that I'm blowing my own brains out; and now that I have no brain it is even more difficult than usual for me to study properly.

"Sad" means "now". "Ćelija" means "cell" (in this context as a building block of organic tissues, i.e. brain, but also is the word for a prisoner's or monk's dwelling). Interestingly, its singular nominative and plural genitive (what you see here) are homographs. "Sivih" is the adjective "gray" in plural genitive. The base word in singular nominative is "siv (masc)/ siva (fem)/ sivo (neut)" and obviously it must adapt in form to whatever noun it modifies in the sentence.

"Da" is very interesting. As a standalone lexical item it means "yes" in Serbian just like in Russian, but also exists as a grammatical element which serves to clarify in-sentence references. In these cases it is classified as a conjunction, specifically a subordinator. For our purposes we might compare it to the English "that". Here are 2 examples of the same message being communicated in English and Serbian featuring that/da in the same functional role:

I told you that I am studying all day./ Rekao sam ti da učim ceo dan.

I am not so tired that I can't take a shower./ Nisam toliko umorna da ne mogu da se istuširam.

Does this say:

"How great is the very beginning/the starting stage of learning a foreign language! You understand much better/much more than you (would) expect, but at the same time you practically always rely on context clues"

For the ones I couldn't immediately instinctively match I tried deducing what they might mean by taking the sound apart at (what I thought might be) the syllable boundaries, then attempting to identify the concept behind the lexical code and look for a suitable match in Serbian and English conceptually, rather than phonetically. This helped with

a) "опираешься" which I don't know in itself but shares elements with the Serbian words for "resisting" and "pushing away" and "bracing against" - now what do all those have in common? the notion of leaning against something with some degree of purposeful force - what do we call something we lean against in Serbian? we call it "oslonac" - we also have a verb derived from that noun and it means "to rely on" - so let's go with that! and

b) "прикольная" which I've never encountered before but it vaguely resembles the Serbian "priklanjanje" - the process of becoming aligned with something, as an opinion or an authority - which again stems from the verb "to bow" - but there is nothing to bow to, per se, in this context - so what is something we bow to generally? it is something powerful, or impressive - what words do I know for "powerful/impressive/worth bowing to" that would fit here? I know "greatness" - it might mean "great" - check against the whole - feels like a good fit, let's go with that! and

c) "ожидаешь" which is entirely unfamiliar to me and doesn't remind me of anything much, except tenuously for the Serbian verb "zidati" meaning "to build", specifically to build with bricks and mortar, like one does a house. Having previously decoded the rest of the text as described, I asked myself what one might "build" in this context. "Expectation", something we often metaphorically build up, is the only notion that naturally fits.

опираться does in fact have a doublet in russian - опора, which means something you lean on, a support. usually like a physical thing. so good thinking there with the oslonac analogy!

unfortunately for прикольная that is just my heritage speaker brain latching on to the one hiP yoUth WOrd i know. you got vibes, if not the etymology, right, it's some sort of positive adjective, but i can't even define it. wiktionary says it can mean funny/amusing/curious, and i guess that could be it, but i meant it in an even more positive way than just curious or amusing. 2.5 priklanjanje sounds like it should mean something that you apply to something to me. we have the verb прикладывать which means to put something against something. and yes the root word is also where we get our word for 'bow' (кланяться) from! that one has other derived terms that have to do with bending/sloping- like наклон, for example, which means slope.

oh what a shame, our words for 'wait' or 'anticipate' or 'expect' don't seem to match. here you used the wrong formula and got the right answer XD

it was super fun to read your thought process!

Gripa je bolest od koje čovek zaglupi. Toliko kijam i duvam nos da će mi mozak iscureti u maramicu. Ionako jedva imam vremena za učenje, a sad jedva da imam i sivih ćelija.

Does this say:

"How great is the very beginning/the starting stage of learning a foreign language! You understand much better/much more than you (would) expect, but at the same time you practically always rely on context clues"

For the ones I couldn't immediately instinctively match I tried deducing what they might mean by taking the sound apart at (what I thought might be) the syllable boundaries, then attempting to identify the concept behind the lexical code and look for a suitable match in Serbian and English conceptually, rather than phonetically. This helped with

a) "опираешься" which I don't know in itself but shares elements with the Serbian words for "resisting" and "pushing away" and "bracing against" - now what do all those have in common? the notion of leaning against something with some degree of purposeful force - what do we call something we lean against in Serbian? we call it "oslonac" - we also have a verb derived from that noun and it means "to rely on" - so let's go with that! and

b) "прикольная" which I've never encountered before but it vaguely resembles the Serbian "priklanjanje" - the process of becoming aligned with something, as an opinion or an authority - which again stems from the verb "to bow" - but there is nothing to bow to, per se, in this context - so what is something we bow to generally? it is something powerful, or impressive - what words do I know for "powerful/impressive/worth bowing to" that would fit here? I know "greatness" - it might mean "great" - check against the whole - feels like a good fit, let's go with that! and

c) "ожидаешь" which is entirely unfamiliar to me and doesn't remind me of anything much, except tenuously for the Serbian verb "zidati" meaning "to build", specifically to build with bricks and mortar, like one does a house. Having previously decoded the rest of the text as described, I asked myself what one might "build" in this context. "Expectation", something we often metaphorically build up, is the only notion that naturally fits.

опираться does in fact have a doublet in russian - опора, which means something you lean on, a support. usually like a physical thing. so good thinking there with the oslonac analogy!

unfortunately for прикольная that is just my heritage speaker brain latching on to the one hiP yoUth WOrd i know. you got vibes, if not the etymology, right, it's some sort of positive adjective, but i can't even define it. wiktionary says it can mean funny/amusing/curious, and i guess that could be it, but i meant it in an even more positive way than just curious or amusing. 2.5 priklanjanje sounds like it should mean something that you apply to something to me. we have the verb прикладывать which means to put something against something. and yes the root word is also where we get our word for 'bow' (кланяться) from! that one has other derived terms that have to do with bending/sloping- like наклон, for example, which means slope.

oh what a shame, our words for 'wait' or 'anticipate' or 'expect' don't seem to match. here you used the wrong formula and got the right answer XD

it was super fun to read your thought process!

Does this say:

"How great is the very beginning/the starting stage of learning a foreign language! You understand much better/much more than you (would) expect, but at the same time you practically always rely on context clues"

For the ones I couldn't immediately instinctively match I tried deducing what they might mean by taking the sound apart at (what I thought might be) the syllable boundaries, then attempting to identify the concept behind the lexical code and look for a suitable match in Serbian and English conceptually, rather than phonetically. This helped with

a) "опираешься" which I don't know in itself but shares elements with the Serbian words for "resisting" and "pushing away" and "bracing against" - now what do all those have in common? the notion of leaning against something with some degree of purposeful force - what do we call something we lean against in Serbian? we call it "oslonac" - we also have a verb derived from that noun and it means "to rely on" - so let's go with that! and

b) "прикольная" which I've never encountered before but it vaguely resembles the Serbian "priklanjanje" - the process of becoming aligned with something, as an opinion or an authority - which again stems from the verb "to bow" - but there is nothing to bow to, per se, in this context - so what is something we bow to generally? it is something powerful, or impressive - what words do I know for "powerful/impressive/worth bowing to" that would fit here? I know "greatness" - it might mean "great" - check against the whole - feels like a good fit, let's go with that! and

c) "ожидаешь" which is entirely unfamiliar to me and doesn't remind me of anything much, except tenuously for the Serbian verb "zidati" meaning "to build", specifically to build with bricks and mortar, like one does a house. Having previously decoded the rest of the text as described, I asked myself what one might "build" in this context. "Expectation", something we often metaphorically build up, is the only notion that naturally fits.