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Saw "Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind" last night with R. It was so lovely. Great ensemble cast, neat plot, decent writing. I love Kate Winslet with non-Human hair colors.

We also tried the only bottle of dry white wine I could find in the markets here. Dry apparently means sweet enough to be a desert wine....so yeah - the Ravshan aka was full of crap.

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I am on day of frusteration number two. And wondering if I really can translate the jargon term instrumentality (i.e. using something as an instrument - usually used to describe music's instrumental use in commercials to promote the message, etc) as "asboblilik" That is instrument + adjectival ending + noun ending, which seems like instrument + al + ity to me. I have to run it by my Uzbeks.

I am feeling february coming on. I don't want to do work or really much of anything beside eat and sleep and play video games, but I have this pesky conference either on Thursday or Friday to give a paper at. I'm not sure which because well, they never tell me before hand and I still have 2 more pages of translation to go and it sucks.

Plus I have a birthday party to go to tonight and a dutar lesson.

yes I do have my grumpy pants on today, thank you very much.