OK, I have some really important stuff to do, so rather than do that I've decided to procrastinate and write stuff in this log.
Some progress in the French work. I've bought all those Stephen King books, and I also grabbed a book which I saw in Tarvos' log called
Les rois maudits just for good measure. I'm going off on a walking holiday Saturday and I'm planning to leave all my electronic crap behind me except for the kindle to read some at night. I've started the first book of the Dark Tower in French and as I suspected I'm better with the translated books. I also read the first chapter of "Don Quixote" but I'm going to re-read it before I have a discussion with my French friend about it. We've rescheduled our chat for the weekend I get back.
Not really going to get any French in next week outside of the book reading. I'm humming and hawing about taking the phone with me in order to use anki. I can do all my anki cards, but then again people can call me, which I would rather avoid. I'll probably end up taking it just because of the anki cards, I can always just ignore the emails and phone calls.
I've noticed that I'm getting a bit burned out on French, so this might be a problem. Actually the problem seems to be that I'm burned out on the shows I've been watching and I have a couple of films I'm watching just because they are in French. They a bone numbing boring, but I keep forcing myself to watch them. To tell you how painful they are; I've been watching these two films for over 4 weeks and they are only 90 minutes each. Probably just total up my time on them today and stick them on my SC score and delete them.
I think I need to find a series like the Hardy Boys in French. When I was doing Italian I found a trove of Hardy Boy books and read at least 20 of them. They have all the same characters and they are written for YA, so not complex language. It was a real boost to my Italian reading and vocabulary.
I'm struggling less with numbers because of constant practice with the anki deck.
OK, better get off and do that important stuff now.