I aten't dead
Feb. 24th, 2010 08:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
calime... asGranny Weatherwax so succintly put it. *cough* It seems to be a long-running theme in my post titles, mostly.
As per usual, RL rose up and swallowed me, so I've been taking lurkerdom to its extremes again. I might recap the highlights (or lows) of the recent-ness in a future post, or perhaps better not, because it'd probably go along the lines of busysnowbusytiredsnowcoldsleepybusyblah, damn little cheese with that w(h)ine :).
I owe comment replies and stuff and ... Sorry. Will try to ease back into the groove.
On an unrelated note, today is the Independence Day for us, here in Estonia. Happy 92nd birthday, dear homeland!
And in lieu of any actual meaningful content, I'll give you a long, mostly funny, mostly true list about how one can know they're really from Estonia:
1. You use the word ‘normal’ if something is ok.
2. When visiting friends abroad you bring along a box of Kalev chocolate.
3. You attended a song festival at least once either as a performer or as a spectator.
4. You know that going to the sauna is 80% about networking and 20% about washing
5. You are nationalistic about Skype (it is actually an Estonian company)
6. ‘Kohuke’ belongs to your menu
7. You declare your taxes on the internet like all modern people
8. You actually believed for a while that Latvians had 6 toes per foot when you heard that as a child
9. You are convinced that Estonia is very strategically located
10. You spent at least one midsummer in Saaremaa, Hiiumaa or one of the smaller islands
11. You can quote films like "Viimne reliikvia" and "Siin me oleme"
12. You spit three times around your left shoulder for good luck
13. Words like "veoauto", "täieõiguslik" or "jää-äär" sound perfectly pronouncable to you
14. You like bold statements, such as this one... ;-)
15. There can never be too much sarcasm
....
I cannot even tell whether the fact that over 2/3 of that list applies/makes sense to me should be a cause for joy or depression...*laughs*.
As per usual, RL rose up and swallowed me, so I've been taking lurkerdom to its extremes again. I might recap the highlights (or lows) of the recent-ness in a future post, or perhaps better not, because it'd probably go along the lines of busysnowbusytiredsnowcoldsleepybusyblah, damn little cheese with that w(h)ine :).
I owe comment replies and stuff and ... Sorry. Will try to ease back into the groove.
On an unrelated note, today is the Independence Day for us, here in Estonia. Happy 92nd birthday, dear homeland!
And in lieu of any actual meaningful content, I'll give you a long, mostly funny, mostly true list about how one can know they're really from Estonia:
1. You use the word ‘normal’ if something is ok.
2. When visiting friends abroad you bring along a box of Kalev chocolate.
3. You attended a song festival at least once either as a performer or as a spectator.
4. You know that going to the sauna is 80% about networking and 20% about washing
5. You are nationalistic about Skype (it is actually an Estonian company)
6. ‘Kohuke’ belongs to your menu
7. You declare your taxes on the internet like all modern people
8. You actually believed for a while that Latvians had 6 toes per foot when you heard that as a child
9. You are convinced that Estonia is very strategically located
10. You spent at least one midsummer in Saaremaa, Hiiumaa or one of the smaller islands
11. You can quote films like "Viimne reliikvia" and "Siin me oleme"
12. You spit three times around your left shoulder for good luck
13. Words like "veoauto", "täieõiguslik" or "jää-äär" sound perfectly pronouncable to you
14. You like bold statements, such as this one... ;-)
15. There can never be too much sarcasm
....
I cannot even tell whether the fact that over 2/3 of that list applies/makes sense to me should be a cause for joy or depression...*laughs*.
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Date: 2010-02-25 06:40 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-03-01 05:10 pm (UTC)We've had a few positively tropical days of +1-2C *grins*, but it's going to get colder again soon. After this winter, I don't expect the snow will be gone before April the soonest...
But there is more sun, though perversely, like every spring, longer days only make me sleepier:) Still, I'm trying for more activity outside work:)