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[cblj_backup]

Every week these days I head to my old stomping grounds on the 19th floor to sort through the mail my replacement doesn't know yet what to do with and say hello to Coworker Crush.

She's actually been absent quite a bit while I've been there, but I don't want you all thinking I'm neglecting her. Today she caught up with me as I was leaving to get a soda from the cafeteria downstairs, so we had a nice talk on the elevator down, mostly about books. She's reading Iain Banks right now, and I am about to start on the many and varied PDFs I'm supposed to be reading, but at the moment on the train am buried in a translation from the French of The Memoirs of Hadrian. ("Wait -- " "Yeah, the one with the wall.")

One of my fellow admins asked me today if my boyfriend works in the city, so apparently my love life is even more exciting than I thought. There followed a brief, tactful conversation about my sexual orientation, which may have been what he was angling for to start with.

It's a Tuesday, but it feels oddly like a Monday...

Comments

[glorafin.livejournal.com]

One wonders if Yourcenar's novel is more easily readable in English than in French..... I started reading it twice (in French) and gave up each time after a few pages. Although it probably says more about my reading habit than about the book itself. :/

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Well, I went in knowing it was going to be a bit short on action. I'm enjoying it so far -- was it the content or the prose that turned you off? I know French grammar can be exacting.