A day in the life
Jul. 20th, 2007 07:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jadesfireAnd so, ten hours after I left work, I am up again. Ugh. I didn't get finished but my brain was starting to fuzz up, and there's only so many mistakes you can make before you have to give it up. I never thought I'd be grateful for a book in German. I mean, it's nothing personal, it's just that I don't speak German, so trying to work out subject headings is tricky. I can identify words for "history" and "art" and spell 'archaeology' in most European languages, although I only 'speak' French and a smattering of Italian. Oh, and English, but some days I wonder about that.
Anyway, after cataloguing the world's most enormous museum catalogue that also happened to be in Slovenian, (too many accents!) German seemed a doddle in comparison. My Dutch reading skills are improving, as is my Portuguese. I can struggle through the Cyrillic alphabet and say 'I am exhausted' in Polish. The day I can read Bulgarian is the day I know I've really made it as a librarian. Because however pretty it is, I don't think I'm ever going to be able to read Georgian.
In other news, today is a rest day, to let my brain re-charge a little. I'm going to post to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
torchwood_meta; email my supervisor and play with reading lists and study timetables; do washing and ironing and maybe finally get round to watching some of S3 of House; see if I can get Rose to talk to me for one tw_exchange story and try to come up with a mystery plot for my other; and generally be domesticated. The other half's been an absolute star in taking all the chores, but it'll be nice to feel I'm helping out for a change. Given it's still dark outside, 2 hours after dawn, there's not much incentive to go out. Especially now there's thunder. I hate thunder... *hides under desk* EDIT: The thunder's loud enough to rattle the letterbox and my poor love is cycling to work through what looks like a waterfall from the sky. He's going to drown!
I will also NOT be getting the new Harry Potter when it comes out. I'm not spoiler-phobic, but I'm not going in search of them, so anyone who wants to come play over here is more than welcome :)
So, that's my day. What about yours?
Anyway, after cataloguing the world's most enormous museum catalogue that also happened to be in Slovenian, (too many accents!) German seemed a doddle in comparison. My Dutch reading skills are improving, as is my Portuguese. I can struggle through the Cyrillic alphabet and say 'I am exhausted' in Polish. The day I can read Bulgarian is the day I know I've really made it as a librarian. Because however pretty it is, I don't think I'm ever going to be able to read Georgian.
In other news, today is a rest day, to let my brain re-charge a little. I'm going to post to
torchwood_meta; email my supervisor and play with reading lists and study timetables; do washing and ironing and maybe finally get round to watching some of S3 of House; see if I can get Rose to talk to me for one tw_exchange story and try to come up with a mystery plot for my other; and generally be domesticated. The other half's been an absolute star in taking all the chores, but it'll be nice to feel I'm helping out for a change. Given it's still dark outside, 2 hours after dawn, there's not much incentive to go out. Especially now there's thunder. I hate thunder... *hides under desk* EDIT: The thunder's loud enough to rattle the letterbox and my poor love is cycling to work through what looks like a waterfall from the sky. He's going to drown! I will also NOT be getting the new Harry Potter when it comes out. I'm not spoiler-phobic, but I'm not going in search of them, so anyone who wants to come play over here is more than welcome :)
So, that's my day. What about yours?