Midlife Memoirs

Chuffed

I went to sign up for French lessons today. It's been a number of years since I took formal classes (30 years or so...) and I don't remember as much as I would like to. After going through the website and e-mailing Alliance Française, I was planning on signing up for an accelerated upper beginning class.

I had a chance to speak with the head of courses, nothing more than a casual thank you and a quick mention of some of the work we had done years ago. Imagine my surprise (and delight) when she said that I would be totally bored with the class, and that even intermediate level classes would be too easy. She said I should enroll in the advanced grammar class and a vocabulary course. Needless to say, I'm quite chuffed and excited about getting back to studying French again.

As an added bonus, the courses I am now taking cost about half of the single course I had planned. (-:

Apathy

I have a serious case of "I-don't-care" bad attitude going on.

My job is officially going bye-bye at the end of this week, there are several essays that need reviewing, and frankly...I'm not into it at all. I have been trying to pawn off essays to all the tutors - as many as I can, but they aren't taking them. Technically I'm not on the schedule for another day, but I want to make sure that all the work is done before then, so there isn't anything for me to do.

I know... I'm the coordinator...the one who has the advanced degree in the subject...I should behave better. I've already been at the job 2 quarters more than I really wanted to be, but I didn't want to leave them without someone who knew what was going on and could run the thing. They, of course, had no real reason to try to replace me, since I was doing such a terrific (in their eyes) job.

Well, now that I have confessed my transgressions, time to go make myself work. I do, after all, still get paid for it.