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Have been translating all weekend so far and have pinched a nerve in my right shoulder doing it. Proof that typing is every bit as debilitating as hefting babies, and the screen doesn't even love you back. Have also discovered, four pages from story's end, that once again the brilliant idea I had for a fic- now three pages long itself- came from the forgotten denouement of this Yumemakura story. Well, not the details, but only because I hadn't yet worked out the details of the fic. Still, it's a nicely chilling denouement and I look forward to finishing the translation.

But not now, because my shoulder hurts, and because once again I'm hung up on how-do-you-translate 呪, ju, which everyone here knows as a (magic) curse but which Seimei (and Yumemakura) use in a broader sense of more-or-less 'magic words with magical effect.' I mean, I'm translating it 'spell' (unless I translate it incantation) but maybe I should be translating it 'magic'. I dunno. Ju wo kakeru turns into cast a spell just fine, but magic has no such specific verb attached to it.

ETA: Have hit the crux that ends the night. Something cold/ shivery and like a sasakure, stands on end up (ripples up?) Hiromasa's spine on seeing Taizan Fukun. Five dictionaries, three of them J-J, assure me with maddening uniformity that sasakure is a) a hangnail b) a frayed end c) a frayed temper. In kendo, a splinter. *But* google "sasakure no you na" and there are people talking about their hidoi sasakure no you na feelings at, f'rinstance, bleeding heavily after cutting themselves accidentally on a razor's edge; or the top of the Nagasaki Memorial that just after the war looked like a crown of thorns or a sasakure no you na thing. I'm stumped. I can't even begin to think what's meant here.

paleaswater, I still can't get into the Aesthe directory. Also I want to visit NY before the weather gets impossible which it'll probably do in June. How's your schedule for the next month?

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Susan had that problem. She called and had the password reset. Will forward it to you. Come in September for the wedding. ^_^ I've talked Sue and Wendy into coming as well. June is really crazy for me -- my best friend's wedding in the first weekend, then I get a week of break, and then it's down to Virginia for a week, and then to Paris for a friend's children's baptism. If you just want to hang around in NYC you can crash at my place, but I probably won't be around much. I'll give you the keys.

Yes, please forward the password. Thanks.

Definitely coming for the wedding, bar acts of god. But I want to buy manga for the summer time. I'd be happy to crash but I assume the SO will be in residence too?

Depends on when you're coming. We'll be in my mother's place week of 19th in June. I can leave you the keys with frontdesk. You can also come toward the end of that week, say thursday or weds. So you'll have two days by yourself, and then we're back Friday. SO has dragonboat, so we can hung out for two days that weekend.