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[rm]

You know that thing I believe where sometimes it's only the future that explains the stuff that's happened in the past? And you know how I have this thing where my entire life tends to be governed by a really peculiar and relentless sort of serendipity?

Okay, so, get this:

So despite thinking there was just a very slim change of this happening (I know I've made vague noise about it to a few of you) it's now pretty much a done deal that Patty's next bit of international academic travel means she's going to be spending 10 or so weeks in Cardiff this fall.

Yeah, what are the odds of that, right?

We cannot stop laughing (and everything we find in random books about Cardiff, I'm like, "I think I used that in a story"), and we're going to have to learn how to pronounce things and OH GOD, I really need a winter coat that's not Jack's.

Also, to totally round this out for Torchtasticness -- Patty'll be in India for about the same period of time in early 2011, and I can visit her there too if we can make $$ and time work. Fandom, say it with me: Cardiff, Switzerland, India. This is my life.

Comments

[smirnoffmule.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, I hope I didn't contribute to that. This is really like a people-who-live-right-next-to-Wales-have-no-excuse thing, not internationally applicable. I really don't think you'll find it a big deal, especially in Cardiff where lots of the place names are English anyway, and people are used to visitors. And, like I was trying to say somewhere in the TL;DR, it's really not the awful tongue twister it's made out to be.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Oh nah, I'm just having random trauma at you. Really trama was breaking down in diction classes in Australia. I _hated_ that.

[smirnoffmule.livejournal.com]

Uch, I sympathise. This is an area I struggle in too - I can't speak French out loud, because something about those vowels hits me right in all the time I've spent in South London (which, when I speak English, I can choose not to use that accent, but apparently not in French). It is not pretty at all. And very frustrating when the ear can hear it but the mouth can't do anything about it at all.