oh, the glamour of the writing life

[swan_tower]

I spent most of the morning wrestling with the IRS website.

Don't you wish you could have such an exciting life?

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[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

Wooo Finnish!

I tried to study it a few years ago, but rapidly realized the class was taught in such a way that I wouldn't achieve translation competence for about three years, and dropped out.

[ratmmjess.livejournal.com]

There's something about repeated letters that I have great difficulty in translating. So Finnish is particularly difficult for me.

But I've turned up information on a Finnish knock-off of Tarzan, appearing in 1940, raised on bear's milk and charging out of the Arctic Circle to fight the Soviets in the Winter War--this, from a magazine published in 1940 in Finland.

Which is, I think, pretty cool, and worth the headaches translating Finnish gives me.