Amy is honest

This morning, Stella found some marks on the kitchen window and asked Amy whether she'd been messing around with her fingers on the window.

Amy replied, "No, with a toothbrush."

Bless her heart, at least she's honest. And not only in that case, but I've heard her stand to other things she's done in the past.

I do rather hope that she keeps that honesty, rather than start to lie at some point in order to evade punishment.

And I'm not really sure how to treat such things, because some things are just not OK, and I feel there should be some sort of consequence—but how to tell her that the punishment is for the deed, not for confessing to it, and that the confession itself is a (morally) good thing?

Linguathon: Rumantsch

So there's this thing called the Linguathon Challenge (linguathon), which is basically "study a language of your choice every day for the month of July and post updates to the community for mutual support, and to see what you can achieve in a month".

It came just at the time where I had purchased a Rumantsch dictionary and was planning on learning a few phrases for my holidays in August, so I thought I'd participate with Rumantsch.

I can imagine that I'll also be posting in my journal. I considered making an opt-in filter, but I wanted to keep the entries googlable and open to people not on my friends list, so I'll probably just tag the entries "linguathon" and/or "rumantsch" and (when I think of it) lj-cut them so that people who aren't interested in updates (possibly not daily in my journal) can skip them more easily.