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Is your icon jaundiced and Jeune Jaune Janvier

Jeune Jaune Janvier

The jaundiced snow froze as quick as it had melted from his stream of steam on this day that deemed to be no different for young Janvier. The glare of sun struck his face, glinted off his gun; he moved steadily but warily. No time to gloat now that the deed was done. Fait accompli, il dit, comme la mort de l'hiver. As death comes to winter then. Time to move on. He strode over snow, thin on parched stone. No reason to stay. The land offered nothing, not a cloud nor a breeze to show him the way. Any direction out would suffice.

A flash of white and a rustle of movement. He steadied his gun and shot the bird from the air. Soon it would be him lying there. He knew it. But not this January, the month he was named for. When May is here, he whispers. Peut-etre mai, but no one was there.

un oiseau mort
jeune jaune janvier
seul avec sa peur

© 2009 Kåre Enga [165.406] 2008-01-10

The prompt actually was the following discussion about yellow (jaune) cases and the fact that it alliterates with Janvier (January) and young (jeune). It wrote itself like watching a scene from a movie ... which is scary. Anyhoo, I went to Google translate and after an hour of back and forth (it wouldn't translate "strode" nor "glinted" into French) I was able to come up with a translation I can work off of. Wonder what Alfred will think! Here it is:

Google-transIate translation from English to French

Jeune Jaune Janvier

Le jaune de neige gelé aussi vite que lui avait fondu de ses flux de vapeur à ce jour que pour être considéré comme de même pour le jeune Janvier. Les reflets du soleil a frappé son visage, a brillé de son fusil, il a cessé, mais prudence. Pas le temps de se réjouir aujourd'hui que l'acte a été fait. It's done, he said, like the death of winter. En hiver, la mort vient à l'époque. Le temps d'aller de l'avant. Il marchait sur la neige, sur la soif de pierres fines. Pas de raison de rester. Le terrain offert rien, pas un nuage, ni un jeu d'enfant pour lui montrer le chemin. Tout en direction suffirait.

Un éclair de blanc et d'un frémissement de la circulation. Il a stabilisé son fusil et a tiré sur l'oiseau de l'air. Bientôt, il lui serait là. Il le savait. Mais pas cette Janvier, le mois, il a été nommé pour. Lorsque Mai est ici, il chuchote. Perhaps come May, mais personne n'était là.

one dead bird
young jaundiced January
alone with his fear

blah blah blah

I got to Wal* as it had a better price than Best* and bought me a Kodak C813 digital camera. I will be practicing this week. I had a choice of pank or teal ; I would've preferred green or orange ...

Myrt, Dalton and I went to Perkins in the West-End Wastelands and I ordered cod. The dinner cost us nothing as we had coupons.

Two nights in a row with one scream! This is as good as life gets some days.

BLOGVILLE:

Folks here sometimes wonder and/or stress about case-color. So in a response about those of us who are yeller, I wrote (edited) to Crys-not really here :

I was promoted almost immediately. And that needs an explanation.

1. I was already a writer before I joined; I didn't come here to learn the basics (as many/most do), but to improve. I'm sure that that was an advantage.
2. I put some of my very best stuff up first in a free account. And that stuff got noticed before I could bury it with a lot of mundane average yuck.
3. My age ... means I wasn't just bleeping teenage angst. Plenty of crap, but it was more mature crap!
4. I got upgraded and had the time to devote to my portfolio (and not just my blog). I reviewed a lot too. I was very active early on. (I had no other life ... no job .. no kids or school to distract.)
5. I have seen lots of folks go blue ... but, I'm not interested. I do help others when I can; but, I don't have the discipline, energy, nor disposition to do so on a schedule (too much like a job). No one has asked and I haven't offered.

Now ... my favorite colors are orange and green, but there are no cases in those colors!

Now ... my ideal for my customicon would be multicolored. 1. An orange cap and scarf (black ear muffs) with blinking green eyes! or 2. green cap and scarf with orange earmuffs or 3. My previous customicon with green trees and orange sky!

Yellow case, blue case, black case? I think we form community regardless of case-color and how good a writer we are deemed to be is partially up to us (do we edit, use spell check, post GOOD stuff) and partially up to others (ratings, reviews, being noticed by the powers-that-be). Alas, blogging apparently isn't part of the equation. Which would explain why there are awesome bloggers out there who are still black cases. If they were to make their best entries separate items; would that help? Much of my poetry is in my blog and not made into separate items like I keep promising myself.

I'm sure those who form groups, use in&outs, run contests, do forums, and REVIEW-REVIEW-REVIEW are considered for "promotion" to blue case/moderator. But for me I focus on only a few things: 1. I write; 2. I blog; 3. I read; 4. I communicate; and 5. I cooperate as much as I can.

... and I have learned to keep lists that adhere to Queen Scarlett's Rule of Five

which basically states that long lists are a bore and 5 should suffice. It has been a great tool around WDC.

Montana: 35º at 14:00

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