Today is supposed to be review day, where I run through the three different lessons I chugged down over the week, speed up a little more in the simultaneous interpreting lesson, and generally goof off and do housecleaning while listening to the vocabulary recordings for good measure. However, I didn't study much yesterday, so I'm still struggling big time with the simul lesson. Good news, however; it appears that my text readability counter only considers this to be "college level entry - difficult," rather than last week's "college graduate - very difficult."
Yesterday when I was supposed to be studying, a variety of people kept emailing and calling me about the local schools' parent teacher conferences. I had taken yesterday off, because I had thought I would be going out of town for something that didn't end up happening, and I was initially excited about a whole free day to play and study. However, three schools had crises of different sorts: some parents wanted to cancel their conference last minute; some parents hadn't even been confirmed for their conference later that day; some parents hadn't been notified of their conference for Monday; one teacher wanted a letter translated into Spanish for passing out at her conferences later that day; and - this one is my favorite - some parents had sick kids diagnosed with strep and kept them home, so the school wanted me to call and make sure the parent or parents would still be attending the conference later that afternoon, and then they wanted me to call the family again to make sure they wouldn't be bringing their kids into the building for the conference and thus exposing everyone else to strep. It was noon before I could get away from both my phone and computer, and this was only done by announcing that I would be unavailable for the rest of the day. I know at least one of the schools was aware I was planning to be out of town yesterday.
Ah! job security.
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