So, against my general intentions with this blog as a fun way to keep in touch with folks and have something nice to look back on every once in a while, I feel it is necessary to address an issue I've been asked about a couple of times
This post is quite late! In the last few weeks I have encountered a series of maladies. I won't tire folks with a lot of details, since none of it ended up being serious, but the first thing had the semblance of being serious which means I was
I have not posted in a while! French classes started back up and I've been quite occupied with it. One big change in the last month or so is that I can finally really understand (some) television/comedy. Not all of it, not all the time, but actually
In Montreal, Pride (or Fierté) falls on the first week of August and was, like Pride in the United States, originally inspired by a violent police raid and subsequent cop riots. While in the 1970s, violent raids and harassment by vice squads - including outing people by publishing their names
The start of my trip back to visit Seattle did not start off well! Half way through a painfully long drive to the airport I realized I had forgotten my passport. My partner had to take another car to drop it off to me. The trip was a whirlwind of
The last bit of class was a rush. I was considerably more worried about this, the second of four sessions [[1]], than the first one. A metric fuckton more grammar and there was less oral practice than the first session. You are expected to be competent at passé composé ("
It's been a hot minute since I posted, and I mean that both figuratively and literally: But let's start at the top. My partner is back finally from their long trip to Peru and that is among the reasons I haven't posted recently. They
(Reminder! I'll be in Seattle July 20-30th. Please drop me a line if you want to hang out as my schedule is filling up quite fast) The government run French classes come in all shapes and sizes - fully remote, part time, night classes, and of course the
(Update: I'll be in Seattle from July 20-30. If you are reading this, there is a pretty good chance you have a means of getting hold of me and would love to hang out. If somehow you don't have a way to contact me, you can
(Note: trying out some new footnote hack, it works much better on the webpage, which is now, properly, https://garbage.today/) It's been too long since I have written but I have several good excuses! The first: the city really has come alive (prend de vie) now that
I generally don't write directly about current events and I expect most people don't read this blog for that kind of content. That said, the brutal police crackdown - 2300 arrests at the time of this post - of students protesting the US support of a
Le cours numéro 1 est terminé! The exams consisted of four parts: * Production orale (speaking): Randomly chosen partners have two conversations. I was most worried about this, but a little practice was allowed first and we could choose out of three topics so it was cool. * Compréhension lire/Production ecrit