I seem to have misled you all, and now I feel like a fraud! I mean a 'call' as in a visit - I don't think I would have been able to get anything done over the phone!
But - DaveBee, do you still think I'll get that box of cereal?
blaurebell wrote:Speaking on the phone to strangers is panic attack material even in German/English, so in any other language I will go to great lengths to avoid it!
I hate phone calls, and they used to give me great anxiety. My dad helped cure me of that by making me do all of his important phone calls and actually all house phone calls and then by getting me a job as a telephonist in a taxi company on Saturday nights
I mean, I'm grateful, but...
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Still not much done. Kept a three day clozemaster streak on ALL my language pairs (I'm working through a ridiculous Swedish backlog!) and surprised a lady in the shop by being able to talk Swedish. I had so much more planned for today, but I ended up staying awake until eight this morning so I actually spent most of the day in bed feeling nauseous. I have none but myself to blame. Fingers crossed that tomorrow is better but my boyfriend finally has a day off work so I doubt it will be. We had originally planned to go and see the tax people but he has worked three fifteen hour night shifts in a row and it's his only day off so we'll probably just laze around instead.
(I know I
should be talking to him all the time in Swedish. It just... hasn't happened. He speaks and my brain just refuses to cooperate. I'm hoping it'll get better once I get back to some decent input. Annoyingly, I left most of my books at home. My boyfriend does have a few in Swedish, but he also has looooaaaaads of really good books in English that I want to read, so...