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Because I'm coming up on one of my yearly oathing points, it seems worthwhile to check in with what's going on in the oaths department. So here it is, by deity/person sworn to:

To Lugh:
- Learn at least three new skills every year. So this year I learned how to make simple clothes for monkeys, drive a stick shift, apply for unemployment in the state of Kansas, and work in a PR agency, which carries its own subset of skills. Before the oath expires (or switches over - I'm renewing this one again, as it's good for me and helps maintain this relationship) I'm also going to have to learn how to play the bard's role in ADF-style ritual. So I think I'm covered here.

To Lugh and the Ritual Teams:
- Learn a divination method and apply it in ritual. This one I'm not so hot on. I'm working with the tarot a bit, and I'm much better with it than I was (divination is so not my strong suit), but I'm not up to snuff with it yet. I have until Spring Equinox to get this one together though, and I think I'm making good progress.

To Oshun:
- Learn more Yoruba and Spanish. Perhaps be able to manage ritual phrases in one or both languages. At this moment, my entire Yoruba vocabulary consists of about 7 or 8 words, and one of them is ashe. So that could be better. Not that there are a lot of resources for this, but I could be putting in a little more effort here. Spanish is a little better, but not much. I have the resources to improve in both of these areas, but have not done so. Need to move, before Spring Equinox.

To Eris:
- Don't be a hidebound traditionalist assweed about ritual. I think I'm doing okay here as well, but will take criticism from the other ritualists. I'm trying. I hardly scream at all in Ritual Teams meetings anymore.

To the dwarves:
- Stop smoking entirely. Still with this one. Not a pinch of tobacco has passed my lips since last year.

To Gaia, Zeus, Helios, and whoever else showed up for Earth Day:
- To plant green stuff that was not for human consumption. Have not done a thing about this. Bleh.

Yoruba

Date: 2004-07-22 10:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kittenpants.livejournal.com
There's a CD with teach-yourself-Yoruba on it sitting right next to your computer... and it has Spanish on there, too. I have them installed on my machine, and you can install them on yours as well if you like.

Re: Yoruba

Date: 2004-07-22 11:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] featherynscale.livejournal.com
I know. I have just been a bum. That's the thing I'm farthest behind on, and I need to suck up and start with it.

Date: 2004-07-22 12:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] agrnmn.livejournal.com
If you need a conversational spanish partner I'd be happy to brush up.

Date: 2004-07-22 12:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] featherynscale.livejournal.com
I will, yes. Right now my vocabulary is itty-bitty.

Date: 2004-07-22 12:26 pm (UTC)
ext_3038: Red Panda with the captain "Oh Hai!" (hiiiii.... - from Lilo & Stitch)
From: [identity profile] triadruid.livejournal.com
I will also gladly trade tongues with you.

Date: 2004-07-22 12:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] featherynscale.livejournal.com
You are a dirty-talking man, you know that?

Date: 2004-07-22 12:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] saffronhare.livejournal.com
Yo hablo un poco Espanol.
(Crap. I can't figure out how to code the funky "n" thing.)

Of course, I speak Spanish with a German accent, which makes me sound like a Nazi refugee...

Date: 2004-07-22 12:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] featherynscale.livejournal.com
That's okay. What little of it I know tends to come out with a French accent, so I'd be like a Vichy sympathizer trying to make contact.

Whaaaat?

Date: 2004-07-22 01:02 pm (UTC)
ext_3038: Red Panda with the captain "Oh Hai!" (who would you fight? - from Fight Club)
From: [identity profile] triadruid.livejournal.com
I was talking about Spanish, which isn't quite so rusty, and French which is pretty damn rusty but I got a chance to try it out the other day).

You're a sovereign being, you came up with that interpretation all on your own.

Re: Whaaaat?

Date: 2004-07-22 01:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] featherynscale.livejournal.com
Does that mean my interpretation isn't valid?
:(

parallel realities

Date: 2004-07-22 01:57 pm (UTC)
ext_3038: Red Panda with the captain "Oh Hai!" (hiiiii.... - from Lilo & Stitch)
From: [identity profile] triadruid.livejournal.com
What, that I'm a dirty-talking man? Of course it's valid; it's even correct. It just doesn't necessarily have to follow from the statement in question.

This is Arguments, Flirting is down the hall...

Re: parallel realities

Date: 2004-07-22 01:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] featherynscale.livejournal.com
This is Arguments, Flirting is down the hall...
No, I think you're wrong. This is my journal, which means that this room is arguments *and* flirting, and arguments *as* flirting.

I was really more interested in your tongue than your dirt, anyway.

tongues vs. dirt

Date: 2004-07-22 02:16 pm (UTC)
ext_3038: Red Panda with the captain "Oh Hai!" (something constructive - from snoki)
From: [identity profile] triadruid.livejournal.com
Fastidious wench.

Re: fastidious wenches

Date: 2004-07-22 02:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] featherynscale.livejournal.com
No argument there.

Date: 2004-07-22 03:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zylch.livejournal.com
ñ = alt+164 (you have to type the numbers on the keypad)

Expanding your knowledge base

Date: 2004-07-23 10:00 am (UTC)
ext_3038: Red Panda with the captain "Oh Hai!" (calico davy flint.. at yer service)
From: [identity profile] triadruid.livejournal.com
In html (including LJ), use ñ (or Ñ for capitals).
Or use your Character Map (Start>Programs>Accessories>System Tools in WindowsXP).
Or, do what I do when I'm feeling lazy: Go to www.google.com and search for 'ntilde', and copy/paste the character that comes up on your screen. LiveJournal and most Word processors will import it just fine.

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