Notes from home
Mar. 29th, 2020 12:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
melliciousI don't remember signing up for e-mails about Dior makeup (although knowing me, I probably did), but they are sending me e-mails in French and I am highly entertained by that. I did take French classes for several years - from the second half of 7th grade through 11th grade, so, what's that, 4-1/2 years? I was never a good French speaker because we didn't spend enough time on that part, but I was good at it on paper, many years ago. I haven't made any effort to keep up with it over the years so it's sort of fun to try to figure out what the e-mails are saying. Between the pictures and the bits and pieces I remember, I can mostly figure it out.
More or less unrelated to that, I've been doing Spanish language lessons on Babbel for a couple of months now. My sister, who is married to a native Spanish speaker (he grew up mostly in Mexico City) says she can't get the hang of Spanish because it's too much like French, and it confuses her. I don't know if she remembers her French more than I do or what, but that doesn't seem to bother me that much. (Really I regret now not choosing to take Spanish back in 7th grade. I think I thought French was more glamorous, or something.) Anyway, I am trying to go slow and really get it into my head rather than do it all more quickly. I think it's working but it feels very slow. I'm trying to teach some of it to Rob as I go, too.
I stayed at home almost all week out of an abundance of caution because I had a sore throat. I was supposed to go back to the screening job that I talked about last week, but meanwhile they had some sort of kerfluffle about full-time people vs. part-time people, anyway, and the upshot is that I'm probably not going to do screening any more, at least for now, and I'm going to go back to my normal workplace and help my boss work on some projects, three days a week. We're trying to do some database maintenance and stuff like that while we're shut down. It's a big place and there's only a few of us in there, so maintaining a six-foot distance is really not an issue. At this point, getting out of the house some seems like a nice idea!
More or less unrelated to that, I've been doing Spanish language lessons on Babbel for a couple of months now. My sister, who is married to a native Spanish speaker (he grew up mostly in Mexico City) says she can't get the hang of Spanish because it's too much like French, and it confuses her. I don't know if she remembers her French more than I do or what, but that doesn't seem to bother me that much. (Really I regret now not choosing to take Spanish back in 7th grade. I think I thought French was more glamorous, or something.) Anyway, I am trying to go slow and really get it into my head rather than do it all more quickly. I think it's working but it feels very slow. I'm trying to teach some of it to Rob as I go, too.
I stayed at home almost all week out of an abundance of caution because I had a sore throat. I was supposed to go back to the screening job that I talked about last week, but meanwhile they had some sort of kerfluffle about full-time people vs. part-time people, anyway, and the upshot is that I'm probably not going to do screening any more, at least for now, and I'm going to go back to my normal workplace and help my boss work on some projects, three days a week. We're trying to do some database maintenance and stuff like that while we're shut down. It's a big place and there's only a few of us in there, so maintaining a six-foot distance is really not an issue. At this point, getting out of the house some seems like a nice idea!
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