Hi. Taking a commercial break from Family Law...

Friday, woohoo! I was so mad last night... I worked so hard on the translations, and then the printer wouldn't work. Scott took his computer with him, so I had to hook mine up to the printer and try to 'Add A Printer' and all that stuff. It spit out the alignment page, so I thought, okay, but then when I closed the Add A Printer window, it wouldn't do ANYTHING anymore - not even turn on. That was last night around 3.00 and I was almost in tears - all that work and then I couldn't GET to it. Anyway, so I went to the office this morning and begged Ted to let me use their printer, and he did, but apparently he's not a computer person - he had to get on the phone and ask the network people how to 'find' a memory stick once we'd connected it. (There's some complicated network system that they're connected to; that's why I couldn't find it.) But it did FINALLY work out, and I got on my bike and went to school.

(Random: Okay, how many times have we seen that stupid Tele2 commercial?!)

Got to school, sat through class - it was pretty good. We talked about the Anne translation and then got out early. The teacher called on me once to ask me to explain the word 'homely' - she said she couldn't explain it. I tried, but it's sort of an old-fashioned word - I said it was just a more polite, poetic way to say 'unattractive'. But anyway, I think most of the class now knows I'm not 'one of them', which for some reason makes me feel better. Anyway, so I sat with Birgit and we talked to each other and a little to the people behind us. I recognized one of those people, a guy from my linguistics class in the first block. I don't know his name - he's 'Babyface' in my head because he has one... big blue eyes - but we ran into each other again in the Albert Heijn To Go... which was weird because that was like an hour after class was over. Anyway, we've never said more than Hi to each other, but it's still cool to recognize people - makes me feel more 'at home'.

So Birgit and I went into town after class to look for a birthday present for her brother - she bought him the DVD of What Women Want. We stood around the Neude for a while, talking about the camps we've worked at - sounds like she had a real b#$%@ of a camp director. Anyway, then I stopped by the AH ToGo and bought boerenkool met rookworst - looks gross but it's good, especially with spicy mustard - and a bag of little chocolate Easter eggs, filled with different things like caramel and nuts. There's only one of the fillings I don't like - it's called 'advocaat' - which means 'lawyer'. Weird! :) Anyway, it's yellow and has egg yolks in it, I think.

So now I'm puttering around, going between the computer and the TV. Family law is over and I'm waiting for Strong Medicine. I don't normally watch a lot of TV, but since Scott's gone, I can 'take it over' for a few days... and today is Friday, so the last day with 'my shows' on... Hopefully Tristan will make it here tomorrow so we can watch Big - on Net5 @ 21.00 for those who care. (Yes, Mom, Tom Hanks with Dutch subtitles... LOL!)

I get to translate the coolest thing for Wednesday... Doonroosje, a.k.a. Sleeping Beauty... but it's not the story, it's a satire on it - and it's from Dutch to English! This is going to be sooo cool; I laugh every time I read it. I won't even mind going up and reading in front of the class. I'll post it on here when I'm done; you guys will ALL be able to read it. :)

Okay, I'm starving (and Lotte's not helping by chatting to me about the pizza she ordered... ;)) so I'm going to go whip something up so I can eat while Strong Medicine is on. Ciao!