Hello Everyone!
For those of you who have no idea what the title of this post is (that is most of you, I'm assuming), it means "I understand a little danish!"
My friend Loey and I decided that, as we are both part danish (me more so, hahahaha!) and because we just plain felt like it, we are going to teach ourselves danish.
The only small problem that I've run into so far is the fact that my college doesn't offer any danish language courses and has no teach yourself danish books.
None.
They have plenty of books IN danish, but none on how to speak and/or read it.
Meaning that I am only a little behind Loey. Most of what I have learned I have learned from her calling and texting me, because her public library has how to speak danish books. Why her public library has more language books than my university library does I have no idea.
However, I am lucky because WWU is part of this group of universities that share books. Meaning that today I finally (FINALLY!) got my how to speak danish CD and book set. From WSU Pullman.
Let me explain. There's this program that WWU is a part of called (I think) Summit, which allows students from WWU, UW, WSU, and I'm pretty sure more schools in Washington to borrow books from all the different libraries. Meaning that I get to learn danish, yay!
I'm not all that great at it yet, but seeing as I started about five days ago I'm doing pretty well I think.
I can say:
~Jeg forstår lidt dansk. "I understand a little danish."
~Har min kaelling og min luder.(Which I have no idea if I'm spelling right -_-) "I've got my bitches and my whores."
~For Farden. "Oh fuck."
~Farden ja. "Fuck yes."
~Hej da. "Good bye."
Because the first thing that you do when you are learning a new language is learn to swear. Anyone want to take a guess about the first word that I learned in danish was? Anyone?
If you said farden or fuck, you would be absolutely correct
So anyway, that's pretty much what's going on with me. I mean, besides learning about modern Africa from the 19th century to today, learning all that there is to know about greek mythology, as well as the beginings of western civilization (including reading The Epic of Gilgamesh for the FIFTH time, and every thing that we are doing wrong to fuck up out environment in environmental studies.
...Yeah... I'm just a little busy.
Till next time,
Hayley
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Friday, March 18, 2011
Stereotypes
Hey all,
So I ended up having a discussion about stereotypes with my friend today. Truth be told we're still having that discussion as I write this.
We ended up getting on a tangent about how the rest of the world sees Americans as, to put it lightly, not all that bright.
Being American myself, I have to say, I don't mind that stereotype. I might not like it being used on me, but I think that there is a bit of truth to that. And when I say a bit what I really mean is the the majority of Americans aren't that smart.
To quote my dear friend, "And even the smart ones still sometimes refer to Swahili as a country."
If you want more fun, sarcastic remarks from my friend, then you should totally check out her new website . It's still starting up, but it's quite good for just beginning. She's currently working on two books that she is posting weekly there.
Till next time,
Hayley
So I ended up having a discussion about stereotypes with my friend today. Truth be told we're still having that discussion as I write this.
We ended up getting on a tangent about how the rest of the world sees Americans as, to put it lightly, not all that bright.
Being American myself, I have to say, I don't mind that stereotype. I might not like it being used on me, but I think that there is a bit of truth to that. And when I say a bit what I really mean is the the majority of Americans aren't that smart.
To quote my dear friend, "And even the smart ones still sometimes refer to Swahili as a country."
If you want more fun, sarcastic remarks from my friend, then you should totally check out her new website . It's still starting up, but it's quite good for just beginning. She's currently working on two books that she is posting weekly there.
Till next time,
Hayley
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Days of Study, Nights of WoWcraft
Hello all.
Right now I'm almost to the end of Dead Week. For those of you who don't know what Dead Week is, it's the name for the week before finals. It's the last days of class, and the last time that you'll see the sun for any reasonable amount of time. If you count reasonable amount of time as meaning rushing between your classes so that you have time to study later.
Overall, it's horrible. More stressful than the finals themselves is getting ready for the finals. Especially if you (aka me) have a professor that ignores the rules of the university and has one of their finals during this week. Or gives homework. But personally I think the premature final is worse.
This quarter I took and intro to robotics course. Intro my ass! The professor acted as if we were all advanced programming students and pretty much said "Here's the parts, make and program robots for your grade." It sucked.
Anyway. One of the most important things that you can do during the week is to keep calm and relaxed and not try to kill yourself. So my friends decided last night that we would take a small break and play WoW to have fun and let our stress out. We're trying to up our guild rank right now, so we were planning on doing a quick guild run of Deadmines. This small break was supposed to be an hour and a half at max.
We ended up playing from 1030 pm last night until 6 am this morning. We completed guild runs of every classic dungeon on Kalimdor so that we can get the Classic Dungeon Master achievement for our guild. This includes the three of us running naked (so that our gear didn't break as we were playing Alliance at the time) into Orggimar time and time again so that we would be able to run Ragefire Chasm.
This would be funny no matter what, but what made it worse was the fact that we were all hyped up on at least two energy drinks a piece. Oh, and did I mention it was 3 am? And that we had an audience of PCs standing around and watching as a naked dwarf shaman, a human paladin, a human mage, and a night elf druid in flight form ran through the middle of their city, constantly dieing and making very very slow progress to the instance entrance.
While this repeated running and dieing would be insane no matter when you try it, we were lucky to be playing at 3 am, so Orggimar was a lot emptier than it usually is.
Did I mention that we were all completely naked except for city tabards?
So thanks to our insanity Valkyries of Revelation is now halfway done with the Classic Dungeon achievement.
We stopped playing at 8 am, went to our classes at 9 am, came back to the dorms at 10 am, and then slept until 530 pm. Overall it was a good day...night...thing.
Just hope my robot final works tomorrow.
Until next time,
Hayley
Right now I'm almost to the end of Dead Week. For those of you who don't know what Dead Week is, it's the name for the week before finals. It's the last days of class, and the last time that you'll see the sun for any reasonable amount of time. If you count reasonable amount of time as meaning rushing between your classes so that you have time to study later.
Overall, it's horrible. More stressful than the finals themselves is getting ready for the finals. Especially if you (aka me) have a professor that ignores the rules of the university and has one of their finals during this week. Or gives homework. But personally I think the premature final is worse.
This quarter I took and intro to robotics course. Intro my ass! The professor acted as if we were all advanced programming students and pretty much said "Here's the parts, make and program robots for your grade." It sucked.
Anyway. One of the most important things that you can do during the week is to keep calm and relaxed and not try to kill yourself. So my friends decided last night that we would take a small break and play WoW to have fun and let our stress out. We're trying to up our guild rank right now, so we were planning on doing a quick guild run of Deadmines. This small break was supposed to be an hour and a half at max.
We ended up playing from 1030 pm last night until 6 am this morning. We completed guild runs of every classic dungeon on Kalimdor so that we can get the Classic Dungeon Master achievement for our guild. This includes the three of us running naked (so that our gear didn't break as we were playing Alliance at the time) into Orggimar time and time again so that we would be able to run Ragefire Chasm.
This would be funny no matter what, but what made it worse was the fact that we were all hyped up on at least two energy drinks a piece. Oh, and did I mention it was 3 am? And that we had an audience of PCs standing around and watching as a naked dwarf shaman, a human paladin, a human mage, and a night elf druid in flight form ran through the middle of their city, constantly dieing and making very very slow progress to the instance entrance.
While this repeated running and dieing would be insane no matter when you try it, we were lucky to be playing at 3 am, so Orggimar was a lot emptier than it usually is.
Did I mention that we were all completely naked except for city tabards?
So thanks to our insanity Valkyries of Revelation is now halfway done with the Classic Dungeon achievement.
We stopped playing at 8 am, went to our classes at 9 am, came back to the dorms at 10 am, and then slept until 530 pm. Overall it was a good day...night...thing.
Just hope my robot final works tomorrow.
Until next time,
Hayley
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Webcomic Update
So, I figured that I would do a little update on my webcomic idea, but not the way that you are most likely expecting.
So I'm still working out the idea for the one about Rowan, but there is now another one in the works.
This new one is based off the guild that I am in in WoW. Fucking addicting game that is. It'll be about my friends and I and random stuff that happens during the time that we play.
Oh! And this one has a name! It's called Valkyries of Revelation after (guess what?) our guild name.
As before I will put up character designs as I finish them and hopefully get a scanner.
Chao~
Hayley
So I'm still working out the idea for the one about Rowan, but there is now another one in the works.
This new one is based off the guild that I am in in WoW. Fucking addicting game that is. It'll be about my friends and I and random stuff that happens during the time that we play.
Oh! And this one has a name! It's called Valkyries of Revelation after (guess what?) our guild name.
As before I will put up character designs as I finish them and hopefully get a scanner.
Chao~
Hayley
Sunday, February 6, 2011
New Idea
So, I've been trying to decide if I want to try and do a web comic for a very long time. Seeing as I read so many, I've been wanting to try and do my own. But I never really had any ideas for what to make one about. But on the way back up to school today I think that I've finally thought of an idea that would work.
I'm excited!
I'm not going to say much, just that it's about a teen named Rowan Taylor who has to deal with some very interesting shit in his life. I'd say more, but not only would it ruin the surprise, but I don't know much more than that. Go me.
So expect to see some concept art up here as I draw it and tell me what you think.
Till next time,
Hayley
I'm excited!
I'm not going to say much, just that it's about a teen named Rowan Taylor who has to deal with some very interesting shit in his life. I'd say more, but not only would it ruin the surprise, but I don't know much more than that. Go me.
So expect to see some concept art up here as I draw it and tell me what you think.
Till next time,
Hayley
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Happy New Year!!!
So, it's been a bit of time since I last posted, so forgive me for that. The holidays were a very busy time, not to mention the week before were finals. But anyways...
I got Photoshop for christmas (YAY!!!!!!!) so expect some pictures to begin appearing here eventually. (I'll get around to it I swear!)
Before this school year started my first laptop was killed, taking with it my two past NaNoWriMos and many other stories, songs, poems, and ideas with it that I can no longer remember. My laptop was later resurected, and now belongs to my mum, but sadly nothing was salvageable. I do not relate this story to try for pity, but to get to rant about how happy I am right now.
Why am I so happy you ask? Because some of my best story ideas have survived because of my dear friends. Yesterday I was able to get the first chapter of a zombie book that I adore. Meaning that, while I might only remember the name of one of the main characters, and the main plot and, sad as the loss might be, this means that I can at least recreate this idea to the best of my abilities. So yay!
There's not much else that has been going on honestly. Writing, playing with pictures, etc. Just surviving. Trying to have enough time to do things that I enjoy while keeping my grades up enough to stay in school. That's about all.
Till next time,
Hayley
I got Photoshop for christmas (YAY!!!!!!!) so expect some pictures to begin appearing here eventually. (I'll get around to it I swear!)
Before this school year started my first laptop was killed, taking with it my two past NaNoWriMos and many other stories, songs, poems, and ideas with it that I can no longer remember. My laptop was later resurected, and now belongs to my mum, but sadly nothing was salvageable. I do not relate this story to try for pity, but to get to rant about how happy I am right now.
Why am I so happy you ask? Because some of my best story ideas have survived because of my dear friends. Yesterday I was able to get the first chapter of a zombie book that I adore. Meaning that, while I might only remember the name of one of the main characters, and the main plot and, sad as the loss might be, this means that I can at least recreate this idea to the best of my abilities. So yay!
There's not much else that has been going on honestly. Writing, playing with pictures, etc. Just surviving. Trying to have enough time to do things that I enjoy while keeping my grades up enough to stay in school. That's about all.
Till next time,
Hayley
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