GAAAAAAAAAAH!

Halfway through Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal -- the dvd is scratched or something!

How to I say "shit" in Swedish?

ETA: OK, after reading the above link, I want to go to Sweden. Who wouldn't feel welcome in a country where the people take being called unintelligent more seriously than "motherfucker"? ("Nothing gets a Swede more annoyed than being called stupid or incompetent.")

[On the subject of attempts to use family-based swearing, which Swedish generally lacks] A man from a Mediterranean country got upset with his Swedish colleague and neighbour and said "Jag har knullat din mamma!" (lit. "I have fucked your mom"). The Swede replied without irony: "Good! She really needed to get laid."

Progress Notes

Progress Notes July 29, 2006:

Pansy and the Horse

New Words: 1000.
Total Words: 2500-3000.
Pages: 14, with the 2-page quasi-outline
Deadline: I think none, now. I don't know what this story is doing or where it's going. Maybe it's become a writing exercise in meandering.
Reason for stopping: Pansy got a new outfit. Must be time to celebrate.
Stimulants: Water. Water. Water.
Exercise: None.
Words I'm surprised Word knows:
Words I'm surprised Word doesn't know:
Mean Things: Legs that hurt from riding when unaccustomed to it.
Typo du jour: n/a
Darling du jour:

She couldn't hold the skin for him properly, so they compromised: she poured water into her leather cap, he snuffled it up quickly and demanded more.

Books in progress: Winston Churchill's History of the English-Speaking Peoples, vol. I. Ian Fleming's Thunderball. FERC July 20, 2006 Order Certifying North American Electric Reliability Corporation as the Electric Reliability Organization and Ordering Compliance Filing. You only have to read the title. Ugh.
Books finished: Elizabeth George's A Traitor to Memory
The glamour: Plums! So cold and sweet! For breakfast! I felt like a William Carlos Williams poem, only even less apologetic.