Yes, it's true. And also a little bitchy. Not in a "sincerely angry, running around the house throwing shit" way, but a light and playful form of pissed off. If the worst version of "Pissed Off Lisa" is a hail storm of fire balls and chipmunk feces, this pissed off is a light shower of lemonade. Yes, lemonade. Nothing else shall do.
Life Update: I'm still sitting at home. Reading and slowly giving into the television addiction that I've ignored for the past 9 months (so many things to see, so little time). I think I might actually have a job! Or a volunteering job, anyway, starting tomorrow. At which time, I will go to some random suite at some random office building and do data input for a study that was done on teenagers and drug consumption. It's sad that I'm excited for busy work, but at the same time, it gets me out of my depressingly empty house (located in the middle of nowhere). And for this, I am grateful.
I'm also reading "The Idiot" by Dostoyevsky. I started it in March and then let myself get distracted by other books until now! I have decided that I am going to actually finish a big fat book of Russian literature... just to say I did it. The hardest part about Russian novels is that everyone has 3-4 different names/titles... all of which are at least 12 letters long. Which leads me to ask the question (*cough* Meagan!*cough*) why the hell do they do that?!? WHY!
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How are you liking The Idiot so far? It's actually my least favorite of Dostoevsky's novels (not that it's bad, just not my favorite). Crime and Punishment is for the win, but maybe you'll like The Brothers Karamazov better.
Also, read Tolstoy's War and Peace sometime. It's amazing. I have a feeling Anna Karenina is more your style, but /I/ like W&P the best, so there. :x
Russian names are really long because Russians like diminutives a lot. And the given name and patronymic is the most common form of address between adults, so that gets used a lot more than the surname. So if there's a character named, say, Nikolai Mikhailovich Dubinin, he can be referred to in different contexts as Dubinin, Nikolai Mikhailovich, Nikolai, Kolya, Kolka (pejorative form), and a host of other potential diminutives. It's not so confusing once you get used to it. :-)
Hmmm... that sounds needlessly complicated. Just for you, Lisa, I will tell my Russian friend Olga to tell her people to stop doing that when she goes back to visit family in August. Not that it will change the books already written, mind you, but future generations won't have to sit there and reread a chapter because they thought they were talking about a new character, when in fact there is only one character in the book that seems to have multiple personalities, until you realize that Russian's have to make things complicated.
P.S.: The above was a hypothetical situation. I've never read that particular book, so I have no idea how many characters there are in the book... presumably more than just one.
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