Mission Accomplished

I got my hair cut this morning. It looks a lot better. Eventually, I'd like a short bob, and I'll have to switch salons because I don't think that my stylist is up to it, but this will do for now. And it's cheap.

On the docket: lunch, nap, grocery store, part-time job application.

And study Polish. I almost forgot that I have the Department of State program that I can follow for free. I've been eyeing other programs, but can't afford them.

Need Something Else to Worry About

The Bridges of Madison County author died at 77 of multiple myeloma, which is what my mom has. That's a worrisome thing to see.

First Sentence

I learned my first sentence in Polish: "Jestem bibliotekarką". ("I am a librarian.") One of my language books recommends starting to learn with sentences that have personal meaning to you.

But I had to tangle with the dreaded Polish grammar. I looked up "librarian," and got "bibliotekarz". I went looking for a sound file, and discovered that "bibliotekarz" is the masculine form of the noun. The female version was "bibliotekarka."

But then I looked at the declension because I wanted to say, "I am a librarian." Nominative. genitive, dative, accusative...If I ever knew those grammar terms, I had forgotten them. After looking those terms up, I decided that I needed "bibliotekarką". then I plugged in "I am a librarian" into Google Translate, and got "Jestem bibliotekarką". I think that's probably right (if a little creepy because Google clearly knows that I'm female). I just bought a pamphlet on English grammar for students of foreign languages because I'm going to need it with Polish. I think that wrapping my tongue around the language is going to be harder than the grammar though. I sputter Polish words.

Keeps me out of trouble :)

Harlee is NOT HAPPY, so I better appease her. I finally got a chance to steal her pillow and throw it in the wash. Poor baby.

Question

How do you make Unicode fonts the default on your computer?

Fragments

Mom is still doing well.

I did the Dollar Tree, Aldi, and WalMart rounds earlier tonight. I bought a flat of baby lettuce plants at WalMart. We'll see how they grow indoors. They certainly look delicious.

I found a text editor that works with the Polish alphabet. I also found out how to set up a Polish keyboard under Windows, but I won't need that for a while yet.

I think that the first thing that I will do when I can afford a Polish tutor is to work on my pronunciation. The word for "I want" sounds like an explosion of air to me.

I'm really resenting losing an hour tonight.