So goddamn busy and tired this last week, I’ve barely wanted to be online except to check if I’ve gotten any mail about the training programmes. Speaking of which, why is it that every spellcheck program and I believe that it should be spelt ‘programs’, whereas Jennifer & Charlotte believe it’s ‘programmes’? I have no clue, hence, it’s ‘programmes’ on all of the publicity material.
Anywho. I should have done more work over the weekend, but I spent all day Saturday between cleaning and sleeping, and Sunday, I spent sleeping and stuffing around with image files for the hell of it. But today wasn’t too bad, I actually discovered a problem with the PowerPoint presentation, and then worked out how to fix it. Yay for me! Although, now that I know how to fix it, I have to do it, preferably tonight and tomorrow. Tomorrow, even though I should technically have tomorrow off… But that’s why I brought the laptop home. So that I can do it here while I have the house to myself, without the reception staff continually asking me what they should do next. Someone else can do that tomorrow.
Get this. Mum is arriving on Wednesday the 3rd, and the first of the training programmes is running over the 4th & 5th. Oh joy. What a wonderful preparation time I shall have. Though, having said that, mum might actually be able to help me on the Wednesday night, so it might not be such a bad thing. Mum is so proud. She’s been trying to convince me for years that this is the kind of thing that I should be doing. The only consolation for me is that I kind of fell into the job, rather than actively trying to do what my mother told me to do. Such a rebel, aren’t I?
I don’t know, I prefer ‘stubborn’. And ‘programs’.
We shall see. The rest of my life is fine. I realize that it seems like ages since I posted anything reasonable, and pawootiefandango, I just did. Good for me.
It is actually ‘programme’. The word has etymological roots in Late Latin and Greek, hence ‘pro’ and ‘gramme’. ‘Grammar’ is a Latin word related to the Greek ‘grammatas’ which meant ‘writing’. The ‘e’ is in ‘programme’ because ‘grammatas’ in Greek became ‘grammar’ in Latin then ‘gramme’ in Old French. ‘Programme’ has its most immediate roots in Middle English, which we know was largely a variant of Old French.
Sorry mate, ‘programme’ it is.
hmmph. fine, but thanks for that. At least I know that I have to add it to the spellcheckers now..