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I 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.

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Skating! Yay! Yours truly can't skate. (Well, she did. On the pavement-glaciers. But they're gone now.) Hurrah for you.

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

Skating is fun when you get good enough not to fall over XD You should try! It's so much better than rollerskating. *coughs* Much better maneuverability.

:( You don't like Hamlet? :( :(

Ooh, I'll keep an eye on the mailbox! :D

Hahaha. I'm still at the LOADS OF ICE NOOOOO CAN'T GET UP CAN'T MOOOVE ZOMG. Ask my parents for my rollerblading failures. Heh. *sticks to bicycles*

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.

Aw. :( I learned quite young so I wasn't afraid of ice then. Now I always eye the sidewalk rather nervously. There's nothing like sliding on a slick patch to make your heart beat ten times faster.

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!

I hadn't seen pavement-glaciers before Edinburgh, so I learnt the hard way. Luckily my wellies stood the harsh treatment. Everyone else had their boots fill with freezing water. Freezing dirty water. *shudder*

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 :(

There are tricksy pavement ice slicks though. Sometimes they hide under snow :(
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. ;)

They do :(

Aye, I hung precariously over it until I managed to overturn it and crawl in. Hilarious sight. Glad no one was around.

XD Poor azuire. It just seems like a strange place to deposit mail! I mean, no mailbox = rubbish bin?

No, no, they just did that for the holidays to avoid walking outside. My normal mailbox is back in use now.

Found it!
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...

Czeslaw Milosz? He's brilliant. If you haven't read any of his work, you need to *g*

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

*notes down name* I think the library should have a few copies...

That last line. I like this interpretation. Hamlet is gone, but things still move on.

You can find it in anthologies -- try complete works :D

Yay a potential convert. Everyone must know how awesome Czeslaw Milosz is.

Ha! yes my library has a copy.

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.

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