Ugh, that is stressful. I hope it's been resolved.

JZ was able to heroically go through the school district website to find the Digital Resources phone number, and they got an IT guy to walk them through it. Zoom had been updated, and for some reason, didn't like her profile, so they had to tweak something that was completely non-intuitive but now it's up and running again.

Laura let me know if you want the info of my Spanish teacher—I do Skype classes with teachers in Colombia (had one who recently moved to the US to be an au pair, now have a different one). They taught at the language school I went to there, so know teaching, not just “I speak it so surely I can teach it”. It’s about $12-13 an hour.

I WANT A ROAD TRIP

That is all.

(Really, though, I have an extremely cute car and I want to drive it, with the roof open under a blue sky, and happy music playing, and the option of questionable choices from food trucks I haven't seen before.)

Thanks, meara. My DIL's mother is a Spanish teacher in Florida Virtual School and my niece up north is a HS Spanish teacher. I have the Rosetta Stone stuff I have started a few times, but get distracted by life. I should see if FL Virtual allows adults in the program. I might stick to it more if I was enrolled. It's 100% a matter of me just doing it.

I'm glad you're able to help your friend's mom. Sophia. It's interesting, the things people focus on at that stage of life.

I think it's great that your grandchild will grow up learning two languages, Laura. I wish I had. Mom taught Spanish and lived in South and Central America for a goodly while, but for whatever reason, I was brought up monolingual. And wow, am I bad at trying to pick up new languages as an adult.

I am amazingly tired today. The very wine-forward 5-hour lunch I shared with a couple of friends yesterday (outside, well distanced) might have something to do with it. I just want to grab a cat and provide a soft stomach for it to lie on while I nap on the sofa. If only there was a career path that featured such activities.

Five hour wine forward lunch sounds both amazing and exhausting!!

t's 100% a matter of me just doing it.

Hah, for me too (a little was for conversational fluency but a lot of it is more trying to remember things I knew once upon a time). In theory I could probably do better in some ways, if I sat down and studied a grammar book. But I know I won’t, whereas if someone is waiting for me online, I’ll show up!

I am back from the P.O. where I sent off two CARE packages.

Buffistas will appreciate that a tiara was included.

Well, eShakti has a pink gingham dress. [link]

Sophia, it's lovely that you are able to help Maria's mom get a funeral dress, it's clearly important to her. I'm also glad, from the sidelines, that b.org was able to help a little - it seems like the sort of task we are well suited lend assistance!

Thanks everyone. I feel like I may not always be able to be helpful, but I have a network of people all over the country who are helpful! Maria is so sure the funeral home will let me in to make the dress look good, and I really doubt it as I had trouble being allowed to my cat's euthanasia (I was not).

That dress is super cute, Trudy. I might need it.

I would be surprised if the the funeral home let you in to help, Sophia, but they will no doubt take advice and direction