dottewa:

needsmorelimes on AIM

Need to get myself a new AIM name, really. Or MSN or something.

I have never been secretive about this. Anyone who knows me in this fandom knows that this is the case. Hell, I even wrote it into an AU story.

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dottewa:

poolwatcher:

dottewa:

rezz-pay:

ishipanythingthatbreathes:

MUST REBLOG ON THORSDAY.

Every Thursday shall now be called Thorsday!!!!!

Thursday IS Thor’s Day?

Like Friday is Freja’s Day?

This is true. Just like Tuesday is Tyr’s Day and Wednesday is Odin’s Day. And Saturday is washing day.

It all becomes much clearer when you speak a Scandinavian language. Like Swedish. Tisdag, Onsdag, Torsdag, Fredag. Lördag, which doesn’t fit the pattern so well.

But in English, only Thursday and Friday were based off of the words Thor and Freja.

Monday is Moonday, Sunday is obviously Saturday, and Saturday is Saturnus. Wednesday and Tuesday are just weird mash-ups.

No, in this I really believe that we took most of it from the old Norse. Sunday is the Sun’s day, btw. Saturday doesn’t make any sense to me in Swedish, but it’s the only one for which I cannot find some kind of analogue. The thing about Tuesday is that if you SAY it in Swedish Tisdag, it sounds ridiculously similar. And Wednesday too. It’s just, they got all anglified and fucked up, and that’s why most people can’t tell where they came from. Certainly not the Romance languages, but the more Germanic ones, hell yes.

mkalyss:

DO IT NOW.

Nonononono, go two down from that. MY FUCKING OTP.

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I just need more Freelancers in my life. And CT is fantastic.

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Probably my only day this trip to get on Tumblr and such. Making the most of it!

Being back in Sweden has been great so far. It’s really been reminding me of all the things I’ve missed about this place, especially our friends here.

So now the thought has occurred to us: when my husband graduates next spring, should we be actively looking for jobs back here? It’s really hit us hard, how much we enjoy it here, in Linköping especially. Almost all of our friends have told us that they wish we would move back. It’s kind of rocking our worldview a bit, since before now the plan was generally to stay in the States.

I’m still a little lost as to what I will do if we move back here. I suppose I could actively seek out a teaching position at, say, Folkuniversitetet or maybe a daycare program of some kind. My husband wants me to study up and pass my oral exam in the Swedish course I took. I passed everything except the speaking part, something that kinda rankles me. Then I’d be qualified to get a good teaching position in most schools, I think. Men jag vet inte vad jag skulle göra…

Thinking of posting a pro/con list at some point. Going to be thinking about this for the rest of this vacation, and probably until the next time we come back, in July.

dottewa:

rezz-pay:

ishipanythingthatbreathes:

MUST REBLOG ON THORSDAY.

Every Thursday shall now be called Thorsday!!!!!

Thursday IS Thor’s Day?

Like Friday is Freja’s Day?

This is true. Just like Tuesday is Tyr’s Day and Wednesday is Odin’s Day. And Saturday is washing day.

It all becomes much clearer when you speak a Scandinavian language. Like Swedish. Tisdag, Onsdag, Torsdag, Fredag. Lördag, which doesn’t fit the pattern so well.

fuckyeahroosterteethproductions:

poolwatcher:

Not actually what I’m listening to tonight, but in the same vein and it always makes me smile. Reconstruction was an amazing season, one of the last I’ve seen, and just fantastic. Some of my favorite moments from the season show up here. Do yours?

Well now that’s come full circle on me.

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