Anyone home?

Wow, 4 pieces of mail in a single day, and not one of them a bill. This may be a record.

For posterity, we have:
- A release form for a contest I won (yay $100 gift certificate for Kelsey's!)
- A notice that a donation was made in my Bubby's name
- My check from ELAM for the past month of work
- A letter from the Editor's Association of Canada asking me to renew my membership

They love me, they really love me. Or at least they've managed to find out my address. *grin*

Anyway.

Yesterday was good, today should continue to be so. On the agenda: giving workshop at Dawson about the English Exit Test, making characters for a francophone live-action game that'll be starting up in the near future... and who knows what else!

Okay, off to shower and get ready and stuff. Sorry for the mundanity of this post.

An evening en français

So tonight was character creation for a French live-action game I'll be joining. There were about 10 of us in Yan's living room, and I was (I believe) the only anglophone. Most of the people there spoke quite decent English, decidedly better than my French, but most of the night was, in fact, spent speaking French. I needed to switch to English occasionally, but I'm hoping that this game will give me some good practice in la belle langue. At the very least, it'll definitely help my comprehension. I was able to keep up with most of it, anyway, and this fact pleases me.

Of course, all bets are off once the game actually starts and people start speaking in affected accents and voices (and often whispers).

Oh, and for the record, my character is based on a real historical personage, the granddaughter-in-law of Benjamin Franklin. (The game is set in 1807.) My character's name is, I kid you not, Margaret Hartman Markoe Bache Duane. How awesome is that?