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Jan. 16th, 2011 10:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
silverflight8I went ice skating today. In retrospect, I could have chosen a better day. It was negative thirty with windchill. Oops.
I can still skate backwards! I can still brake! I can still skate, period! It's been a few years. I didn't attempt spins. (I hate spins.) There were perhaps two or three dozen people out today - on a nice day, the lagoon is filled with hundreds of people. The relative sparseness of people worked in my favour, though; I was so bundled up there it was exceedingly impractical to look backwards when I skated backwards, so it was all good. I would like to go skating again. Only on a better day, thank you very much.
Reading through Hamlet again. V. exciting.
I can still skate backwards! I can still brake! I can still skate, period! It's been a few years. I didn't attempt spins. (I hate spins.) There were perhaps two or three dozen people out today - on a nice day, the lagoon is filled with hundreds of people. The relative sparseness of people worked in my favour, though; I was so bundled up there it was exceedingly impractical to look backwards when I skated backwards, so it was all good. I would like to go skating again. Only on a better day, thank you very much.
Reading through Hamlet again. V. exciting.
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Date: Jan. 17th, 2011 12:09 pm (UTC)Hamlet! Not so much yay!
One of the few Mondays I'm actually cheerful, hehe. Tell me if/when your letter+card reach you <3
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Date: Jan. 17th, 2011 05:26 pm (UTC):( You don't like Hamlet? :( :(
Ooh, I'll keep an eye on the mailbox! :D
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Date: Jan. 17th, 2011 05:35 pm (UTC)I like Hamlet; I don't like reading it so much. And here is your obligatory Polish poem to go with it.
I was so pleasantly surprised to get your card. At first I thought it was lost and buried because our mail during the break was redirected into a cavernous space that I had to crawl into to get my cards/parcels (no, this is not a euphemism. I am that tiny). And then it showed up in my mailbox. Squee! I posted a reply that very evening, before the collection time.
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Date: Jan. 17th, 2011 05:39 pm (UTC)This poem is not available outside the United States due to rights issues
I thought this only happened on Youtube...brb, googling.
You can climb into your mailbox? *envisions and fails* Yay I'm glad you got it!
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Date: Jan. 17th, 2011 05:45 pm (UTC)Haha our mail was put in those large rubbish bins? The square ones on wheels that you put black bin bags in. And I couldn't reach over :(
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Date: Jan. 17th, 2011 05:52 pm (UTC)Ewww. It's a good thing your boots stood it.
Oh no! Yeah, someone could fall in (trying valiantly to get their mail). But a rubbish bin? That's an unusual choice...although it makes for interesting anecdotes. ;)
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Date: Jan. 17th, 2011 11:20 pm (UTC)Aye, I hung precariously over it until I managed to overturn it and crawl in. Hilarious sight. Glad no one was around.
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Date: Jan. 17th, 2011 05:41 pm (UTC)you chose the easier part an elegant thrust
but what is heroic death compared with eternal watching
with a cold apple in one’s hand on a narrow chair
with a view of the ant-hill and the clock’s dial
Favorite part. That translator is really good. I keep seeing his translated poems around the place...
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Date: Jan. 17th, 2011 05:44 pm (UTC)my favourite is:
Now you have peace Hamlet you accomplished what you had to
and you have peace
The rest is not silence but belongs to me
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Date: Jan. 17th, 2011 05:50 pm (UTC)That last line. I like this interpretation. Hamlet is gone, but things still move on.
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Date: Jan. 17th, 2011 11:21 pm (UTC)Yay a potential convert. Everyone must know how awesome Czeslaw Milosz is.
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Date: Jan. 17th, 2011 11:28 pm (UTC)Is that how his name is spelled? No diacritics? I confess I am horribly confused with how Polish (scratch that, all East European languages XD) work.