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[dakegra]

I'm back home.

Well, I got back home yesterday after a five hour drive. But I've just about recovered from my week away.

So. What happened whilst I was gone? Did I miss anything exciting?

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[innerly.livejournal.com]

welcome back..

not sure you will find this exciting, but i do :)
starting next semester, on top of the HS classes, i will be teaching a class at the University

[dakegra.livejournal.com]

cor, that's ace! Teacher innerly!

[innerly.livejournal.com]

:)

i might even need a bit of your help if you are willing..read when you have time: http://innerly.livejournal.com/220203.html

[dakegra.livejournal.com]

sure! you know where I am. What do you need to know?

[innerly.livejournal.com]

thanks :)
the syllabus is in spanish, so i will translate some of it, hopefully this week, and email you, ok?
i have to cover everything, but it's too focused on databased marketing and CRM, so i want to cover the basics and spend less time on it, then i can include topics that i really want to talk about...

[dakegra.livejournal.com]

cool. Not sure how much help I'll be, but I'll do my best. :-)

[innerly.livejournal.com]

any help will be more than welcomed :)

[boliviafang.livejournal.com]

caitirin was lookin' at me, and mazzie ate the last scone, and anonymous_greg wouldn't let me sit by the window on the drive to the store.

[dakegra.livejournal.com]

look, I've told you lot before. This is your last warning. Any more monkey business and no sweets* for a week.



* I suppose you crazy USAians would call it 'candy'

[caitirin.livejournal.com]

I did NOT, EITHER! She looked at me first anyway!

And.. and... and.... I WAS DEAD AT THE TIME!!

[dakegra.livejournal.com]

you were so not dead. Look, you weren't even sparkling.

[boliviafang.livejournal.com]

...hellziggy started it.


Oddly, candy was never much of an incentive for me. I'm probably the only kid on the block who wanted semisweet chocolate in their Easter basket. And I HATE most "holiday" candy.

Does "sweets" mean only "candy" over there, or does it include pastries and cupcakes? I can be bought with those, providing there's some semisweet chocolate involved.

[dakegra.livejournal.com]

I'm intrigued by the phrase 'semisweet chocolate'

sweets here could refer to chocolate as well as candy (hard or soft, jelly type), though if you offered me sweets, I'd assume you meant candy rather than chocolate. After all, if you had chocolate, surely you'd offer me chocolate rather than sweets.

You can also have a sweet after a meal, which would be a sweet course, or pudding. Mmmm, pudding.

Now, I'm not sure what you'd refer to the bit after your savoury meal as - could be cake/trifle/cheescake/etc

pastries and cupcakes are just called pastries and cupcakes over here, though we may refer to pastries as 'Danish pastries'.

[boliviafang.livejournal.com]

Anything served after a savory meal is "dessert", no matter what it is. It could be pie, cake, pudding, chocolate, a sweet alcoholic concoction (hot or cold) or, God help me, fruit.

When we say "a Danish" we refer to a very specific type of pastry. I think it's a rolled dealie with fruit rolled into the layers, but not to be confused with a fruit roll.

Speaking of desert, I just had a lovely slice of strawberry rhubarb pie, heated up and served with vanilla ice cream. Yumm!

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

I got gerbils!