I've posted some pictures of my kitchen project I've talked about here.

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He's actually made a lot more progress since the last pics I took and posted. Drywall is up for one thing. I'm supposed to go pick out flooring FOR REAL tomorrow.

Mystery NASA press conference on Wednesday:

NASA to Announce Success of Long Galactic Hunt

WASHINGTON -- NASA has scheduled a media teleconference Wednesday, May 14, at 1 p.m. EDT, to announce the discovery of an object in our Galaxy astronomers have been hunting for more than 50 years. This finding was made by combining data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory with ground-based observations.

Any guesses as to what they found?

Bush's brain?

I've posted some pictures of my kitchen project I've talked about here.

AWESOME.

Any guesses as to what they found?

I would assume a supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, given that the Chandra X-ray Center is involved.

I would assume a supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy

I thought they already found that. Or maybe I'm thinking of our galaxy's creamy nougat center....

Huh. Both, I guess, but mostly the latter--what my character is trying to say is, "That noise is nothing you should worry about, just Pierre being clumsy again, so go back to sleep (because no prisoners are trying to escape here, nothing of the kind, and by God I hope you're too asleep to notice I'm speaking French with an English accent)."

In that case, “Qu’est-ce que c’était?” or “Qu’est-ce que c’était que ça?” would be the literal translation of “What was that?”, but I would probably put “Qu’est-ce que c’était ce bruit?” (literally “What was that noise?”).

So, for the whole exchange, I would use:

—Qu’est-ce que c’était ce bruit?

—C'est (or "Ce n'est", if you want to be more formal) rien! Pierre a juste trébuché.

The closest translation of “trébucher” is “to stumble”, but there is an implied fall in it. You could also say “Pierre a juste fait un faux pas et il est tombé.” But why would you when you can use a cool verb like trébucher?

Timelies all!

Once again I am trying to type around a cat.(who is nomming my earrings. Oh, goody)

But why would you when you can use a cool verb like trébucher?

Why indeed? Thanks!

Kitchen remodel!!! Can't wait to see the finished product, lisah!!

Root canal today. Much easier than the last one. Possibly because I popped a Vicodin in the cab on the way over. (Which caused me a little worry when she was all "I'm just going to test it to make sure we've got the right spot. Tell me when this hurts." "Ummm..")

Then I stopped at Filene's and the clerk forgot to ring up a $40 shirt. When I noticed my first thought was "Crap, what if I need to return...nevermind." If I were a better person (or thought the cashier could get jacked for this in some way) I'd take it back. I'm not.

Got home to find frantic messages flying all around about a project I'm working on. I swear, it's like the entire company is fifth graders playing telephone - people all the way up the food chain getting their panties in a twist because one guy keeps using the wrong term and sending everybody off in the wrong direction. By the time I got that settled, the project is actually in way better position than it was before I started making my fix-it calls, so that's good.

Turning out to be a whiplashy kind of day, actually.