Clarissa's Blog

I actually worked today!

Here’s proof:

First time since June 14 I’ve done so much work in one day.

Teaching refers to preparing my new course. Classes haven’t started yet.

So, fellow language lovers, what would you call this in English:

They have filling, see:

I never make them because I don’t do flour but they are very popular in our cuisine.

It feels weird to call them pies. “Kolia ran to the window holding a pie in his hand” gives me an image of a large thing on a baking sheet. Or am I wrong and “pie” is fine for “пиріжок”?

I have half a mind to go with “pirozhki” because that’s what it is but the plural is throwing me off.

I have this large fluffy towel that I love. I’ve had it for years. It’s gigantic and very cozy. But it ripped, and I was faced with the need to let it go.

But N took it and sewed the rip. Watched a video to learn, and it came out looking neat and perfect.

That’s true love, people. A 48-year-old very busy professional man sewing a rip in an old towel because his wife loves it.

Since the towel is now a symbol of eternal love, I’ll keep it until I’m buried with it, which is hopefully in a very distant future.

In the meantime, the Trump campaign is plastering social media with “are you better off now than 4 years ago?”

Well, obviously we are all massively better now than in August of 2020. Can anybody in the campaign subtract 4 from 24 and figure out that drawing attention to the summer of COVID, lockdowns and BLM riots is not a brilliant move?

In August of 2020, parents were receiving news that schools weren’t going to reopen. It’s a very bad idea to invite people to think back to that time.

I definitely wasn’t better off 4 years ago because I couldn’t live my life as freely as I do now. I couldn’t see my sister and my parents, I couldn’t travel, I had to go to restaurants illegally, I had to go to battle and be excoriated to teach in person, my kid couldn’t go to preschool without a stupid mask.

Maybe don’t remind me of that because no matter who’s specifically to blame for it all, I was not better off. And I’m still angry about it.

Governor Walz oversaw an explosion in the violent victimization of black people in his state.

All of these excess deaths of black people happened during Walz’s term in office. Why would anybody vote to bring his policies to the national scale?

Then again, white people seem to be doing great in Minnesota according to this graph.

What is it with this campaign?

Kamala plagiarizes like Bidenhttps://t.co/b2Kqp0V29e

— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) August 11, 2024

Few things are as moronic as the idea that policy can be plagiarized. If I’m for free speech, am I plagiarizing everybody before me who said they are for it?

The worst part is that the policy itself is stupid. There’s no reason to exempt a specific category of earnings from taxes. It’s all silly, inane pandering.

I have started working on my literary translation of the play The Song of Israel, and it’s not going easy. I know where I’m going to send it for publication, and that’s not great because now I’m writing for a specific person who will read the translation. And good writing, as we know, happens only when you address it to God.

I’ll have to snap out of it in some way.

I’m also annotating the play with relevant historical and cultural information. If I started doing it, then why not just do it right, you know?

Iran collusion is as stupid as Russia collusion. It’s a loser game and it’s lunacy to play it when we already know the result.

Iran is hacking the Trump campaign to interfere in the U.S. election in order to aid Kamala.

If Iran wants Kamala over Trump that badly maybe we should take that as a hint. pic.twitter.com/Teqsw2FFtZ

— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) August 11, 2024

I have been undecided and persuadable until now. There was a possibility that I’d vote for Biden. But Kamala managed to put me off in just a couple of weeks to the extent that my persuadability is gone. This has nothing to do with any of this Iran silliness, of course.

Folks, these Clean perfumes are so cool. I don’t know how to explain it but they do smell clean. Usually “clean” in scents means “smells like fabric softener” but this is a completely different kind of clean. It’s understated and gentle.

There are advances in everything, including scents.

Also, I’m finally going to church because I’m completely healthy for the first time in 40 days.

Turns out people have already memed the scary joy campaign:

People would go to any lengths to abjure the freedom of the press and of thought.