Sing Me Spanish Techno

What an exhausting Wednesday. I almost thought that I wouldn't be able to write my traditional post-Spanish post, however, I have to keep myself awake for another half an hour until my laundry is done, so the no-post has been averted!

I am exhausted mainly for one reason today: workplace politics. Need I say more? This morning was full of it, and then my evening was full of it too. Sigh. I love my job, I do, and I do love my school. And it's never the kids that I complain about, even if I do have one class that's gonna drive me up the wall this semester. I miss the old days; the staff used to be more cohesive and I really didn't know how good I had it. Time machine please. My other two classes cheered me up today. As did messages from people who noticed my sad and beat-down tweets.

However, other than the politics, today was a pretty good day. I left work early, took myself out for dinner, and did some marking in the library before Spanish. Spanish class itself was good. We're actually half-way through the course now! We learned the numbers from forty to two hundred, more grammar, how to tell time in Spanish, months, and days. I can now tell people that mi cumpleaños es el quince de febrero. That means that my birthday is pretty soon.

Speaking of which, I got home to a valentine and birthday card from my parents! They like to save money so they send them together in one envelope. The valentine has a cat on the front and a joke written by my dad inside. I'm sure he spent most of January thinking of it. Inventing bad jokes is just one of my dad's many eccentric pastimes. This one's actually one of his better ones:

Q: What do cats call mice on skateboards?

A: Meals on Wheels.

The birthday card just had plain old balloons on the front, but inside it said "gift to follow" which means great things I'm sure... especially considering it will be a gift from the man who wrote the above joke.

Tomorrow night some work pals and I are finally going out for dinner at a Brazillian restaurant. We originally planned to do this in septiembre. Ridiculous, I know, but I'm happy it's finally happening. I'm looking forward to having some vino, that's for sure.

Hasta luego!