j'ai en peu francais *

* Yes, I'm aware this is incorrect. That's kinda my point.


First day of Job #2, and guess which of my skills are being used the most?


Editing? Nope. So far, it's just made me wince several times while reading through dreadful powerplant documents.

Engineering? Not really. It's helping me to understand the powerplant documents, but they're not all that tricky, so it's not like I'm having to delve deeply into my memory of uni lectures.

My self-taught French?

...yes. The language I am hopeless at, didn't mention on my CV, can't understand on tv shows, and have completely ignored for the last year or two is, right now, my number one MOST USEFUL SKILL in the workplace.


(So far, I have chatted to the company's French teacher, translated some job references for the HR department, and given fast-language-learning tips to someone who needs to be semi-fluent by October.)

GOOD movie

The problem with the movie Tangled is that every time I get to the end of it I want to rewind back to the beginning and watch it all again.

Sometimes I get impatient, and start rewatching it when I'm only halfway through...