extemporally

to read books about poetry, or books written by poets. Recs please? ♥

PS. Here's one in return - Whipping Girl, by Julia Serano. Really very good.

There are not a lot of articles on Shizuka out there. I mean, there are some four year old ones about the 2006 Olympics, but those usually tend to go, like, "Sasha Cohen and Irina Slutskaya both fell IN A STUNNING UPSET, and Shizuka Arakawa got gold..." which is not reeeeeally what I'm looking for. What I want: interviews, people! Articles which talk about her personal life to some extent! I don't doubt that there are these things out there -- even if Shizuka seems to be pretty private about her personal life -- it's just that they're all in Japanese. I am super entitled, and Google Translate makes my head hurt.

So, if you have anything of the sort, send those my way? I've been trawling ontd_skating and stuff, but yeah. Insufficient for my needs, people! I should probably have taken Japanese more seriously way back in secondary school, but um. D:

In return, have a video where Shizuka and Miki dress up in kimono and look stiff and awkward.

( from 2004 )

Miki is only 17 here! She looks terribly young and adorable.

Also, like.

Does anyone have any chicken soup recipes? I'm talking chicken soup in the sense of 'chicken and vegetables, is roughly filling', not chicken soup in the Chinese sense, which (as far as I can tell) basically goes: 'Get a chicken. Black, if you can get it. Also as many expensive herbs as you can. Boil for five hundred hours. YOU NEED THIS TO KEEP UP THE STRENGTH OF YOUR DEPENDENTS.' So, yeah. Less tyrannical recipes, hopefully with carrots and celery and with an achievable brewing time! Anyone?

Also I'm hungry.

Hi everyone I have a favour to ask! I'm starting a Spanish class soon, so I thought it might be a good idea to get some Spanish music. :D?

I'd be eternally grateful!