The Usual PMS

As usual, PMS for me means a week of believing that I am a) lazy, b) lame, c) have never accomplished much, d) will never accomplish much due to being lazy and lame, etc. , etc., ad nauseam.

Enjoy my part time job far far too much. Pay me to talk to teenagers and little kids and adult-type people about books? To touch books, lift books, shelve books, et cetera? Yay!

Really some people just have their thing. Other people it's movies/art/music/sports, me it's books. Not just the world of the mind, but the tactile package and the marketing schemes and the choices of fonts (I mean, you can tell so much about, say, a romance or fantasy novel just from the choice of cover font).

Well, I am discovering, on the plus side, that I'm pretty good at working with diverse teenagers. Though I definitely need to start studying Spanish again. This seems to be a key skill, for the foreseeable future, in the public service sector. My remaining vocabulary of maybe 100 words at best just don't cut it.

I need to download Shockwave to my computer though, to use the new free language learning software from the library, and it doesn't want to download to the computer. It thinks we have no space free, which seems unlikely to me. *grr*

If anyone wanted to make my week/month who spoke Spanish, they could help me think of cool ways to study? Anyone want to be Spanish-language penpals with someone with a 3 yr-old level vocabulary?

Quick poll of you guys

Someone has emailed me at my current email account, with an email I absolutely don't recognize, asking if "either of these email accounts" (listing my current and most recent) are for me (full name with both middle initials). And a subject line "attempting to find someone".

They have not included any details about who the blank they are, a name, a sig file, etc. And the user name is not anything I recognize, and doesn't come up in a Google search.

The domain is another.com, if that's relevant.

Is this something I should answer, or ignore like the creepy scamming spammer plague it feels like?

It's that second initial that makes me go "hmm, this might possibly be someone I know." Not all that many people know my second middle initial - it's not on most of the public documents out there.

Thoughts?