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Just going to provide some updates on what's going on in my life.
Just going to provide some updates on what's going on in my life.
NHL
Playoffs
> The Ottawa Senators (Ottsens/Sens) won Round 1 against the Montréal Canadiens, and have advanced to round 2, where they're facing the Pittsburgh Penguins.
> Pittsburgh won Game 1 because they capitalized on Ottawa's penalties.
> Pittsburgh also won Game 2...
> But the Senators won Game 3 less than half an hour ago, and that gives me lots of hope yay :D The next games are gonna be tough. This game was already at home (teams generally play better at home) and it took two extra periods to win (that's a lot of fighting back).
> Game 4 is gonna be good.
Covervote
> I decided to vote for Duchene in the NHL cover vote (see end of previous post for info), but unfortunately Hall won by less than a hundred votes. Frustrating, but at least now it's clear who I'm voting for. :)
> The voting for the next round is now finished, and I will check back into covervote.nhl.com to see if Hallsy made it through! :D
> The Ottawa Senators (Ottsens/Sens) won Round 1 against the Montréal Canadiens, and have advanced to round 2, where they're facing the Pittsburgh Penguins.
> Pittsburgh won Game 1 because they capitalized on Ottawa's penalties.
> Pittsburgh also won Game 2...
> But the Senators won Game 3 less than half an hour ago, and that gives me lots of hope yay :D The next games are gonna be tough. This game was already at home (teams generally play better at home) and it took two extra periods to win (that's a lot of fighting back).
> Game 4 is gonna be good.
Covervote
> I decided to vote for Duchene in the NHL cover vote (see end of previous post for info), but unfortunately Hall won by less than a hundred votes. Frustrating, but at least now it's clear who I'm voting for. :)
> The voting for the next round is now finished, and I will check back into covervote.nhl.com to see if Hallsy made it through! :D
Countryfic
> No new developments, no new plot ideas... all I'm doing is playing with my characters. :) I like drawing them, and there are so many unofficial fun scenes to drop them into, so... drawing them will suffice until I get a good plot idea.
> Writing them in random situations works too. I'm just not very into writing right now, so.
> As for the characters, I've been developing them-- starting in Scandinavia, because that's where my 2010 self chose to start, being obsessed with Nordic things.
> I started in Norway, naming my Norway-rep Erik Brønstad, and he's the one I'm closest to (basically the only one I've really developed, so... XD) More about him in posts some other time.
> Writing them in random situations works too. I'm just not very into writing right now, so.
> As for the characters, I've been developing them-- starting in Scandinavia, because that's where my 2010 self chose to start, being obsessed with Nordic things.
> I started in Norway, naming my Norway-rep Erik Brønstad, and he's the one I'm closest to (basically the only one I've really developed, so... XD) More about him in posts some other time.
Miscellaneous
> As part of my development research for Erik, I've spent months looking into random Norwegian things-- falling in love with Kaizers Orchestra, a band (wikipedia) (website), following the Stavanger Oilers hockey team to their victory in the GET-ligaen (league).
> I've been really into Kaizers Orchestra, and am totally in love with songs from their last 3 albums (a trilogy, actually) and am learning a lot of Norwegian from them. (Although their dialect is a bit different from "official" Norwegian.)
> I would recommend them for their creative music (I swear, putting orchestra parts into their songs is cool, plus they do all sorts of weird things with scale/key shifts and such, but it's all very good still.) But I know not everyone is going to appreciate the bother of reading translated lyrics, so I won't start shoving in your face how you should totally listen to them right now XD
PS: As for my post title, the name of Kaizers Orchestra's lead singer is Janove Ottesen, and it struck me how similar "Ottsens" was to his name, so... I can't resist some mad word play okay :D
> I've been really into Kaizers Orchestra, and am totally in love with songs from their last 3 albums (a trilogy, actually) and am learning a lot of Norwegian from them. (Although their dialect is a bit different from "official" Norwegian.)
> I would recommend them for their creative music (I swear, putting orchestra parts into their songs is cool, plus they do all sorts of weird things with scale/key shifts and such, but it's all very good still.) But I know not everyone is going to appreciate the bother of reading translated lyrics, so I won't start shoving in your face how you should totally listen to them right now XD
PS: As for my post title, the name of Kaizers Orchestra's lead singer is Janove Ottesen, and it struck me how similar "Ottsens" was to his name, so... I can't resist some mad word play okay :D
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