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Sep. 16th, 2009 10:11 am
WotD: placemat
- das Tischset/das Platzset
- de placemat
- el salvamanteles
- la tovalla individual
- le set de table
- y mat bord
- an mata boird
- mata stołowa, podkładka
- 식탁용 매트 (食卓用 매트)
- 餐墊 cāndiàn
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Sep. 16th, 2009
Sep. 16th, 2009 02:59 pm
Middle-Aged Man Autumn
For some time now, people have been lamenting the departure of Summer, but it didn't really feel like Fall to me until I woke up this morning and realised that the air was finally dry. It's been over a week of sunny days, cool temperatures, and humid air, a combination that plays with my sense of climatic appropriateness. Not only are the elements back in sync again, but there's even a stiff cooling breeze that was whipping up whitecaps on the Lake this morning the like of which I haven't seen in ages.
In the light of this shift, all the the slowly-accumulating signs of September around me take on new significance. The couple of maples streaked with red and orange look like early adopters instead of ailing drought victims and the flocks of departing geese seem forward-thinking instead of confused. Last year at this time, we were already celebrating the Autumn Moon Festival, but that's still two weeks away according to the traditional calendar.
Still not to early for the Koreans to serve me 호박, however! I was making a second visit today to make up for my absence last week. I knew they enjoyed seeing me, but I didn't realise how much until I came in Monday and Jay half-in-jest full-in-earnest voiced his disappointment at not seeing me last week. "Whenever you don't come by, we ask ourselves Last time did we do something wrong?" I told him he should never think that way and that I'd be back later in the week to make it up to it. When he caught sight of me today he called out, "You kept your promise!"
If only all my commitments were so easy to keep. I finally called![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
niemandsrose to see how she was getting settled in the City of Evil and was astonished to find out she's been attending classes for three weeks already. I'm gearing up for a trip down to STL this weekend in order to help out Mom even while I see opportunities to keep my assurances to Seph and his lovely wife that this will be the year I visit them without fail fade away. It's easy to use monetary insecurity as an excuse, but one should never let that come in the way of being a man of one's word.
In the light of this shift, all the the slowly-accumulating signs of September around me take on new significance. The couple of maples streaked with red and orange look like early adopters instead of ailing drought victims and the flocks of departing geese seem forward-thinking instead of confused. Last year at this time, we were already celebrating the Autumn Moon Festival, but that's still two weeks away according to the traditional calendar.
Still not to early for the Koreans to serve me 호박, however! I was making a second visit today to make up for my absence last week. I knew they enjoyed seeing me, but I didn't realise how much until I came in Monday and Jay half-in-jest full-in-earnest voiced his disappointment at not seeing me last week. "Whenever you don't come by, we ask ourselves Last time did we do something wrong?" I told him he should never think that way and that I'd be back later in the week to make it up to it. When he caught sight of me today he called out, "You kept your promise!"
If only all my commitments were so easy to keep. I finally called
niemandsrose to see how she was getting settled in the City of Evil and was astonished to find out she's been attending classes for three weeks already. I'm gearing up for a trip down to STL this weekend in order to help out Mom even while I see opportunities to keep my assurances to Seph and his lovely wife that this will be the year I visit them without fail fade away. It's easy to use monetary insecurity as an excuse, but one should never let that come in the way of being a man of one's word.