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January 27th, 2009
06:51 pm
Had another of those irritating moments in a job-search.
Job: Look! You could do this! It's EDITORIAL....it's for a GRADUATE....you need an interest in COMICS....it's in London, but the pay is reasonable for living there!
Me: (urk, London but...) OOOh
Job: *tiny print* Oh yeah, most importantly you need to be fluent in another European Language.
Me: .....somehow I doubt a C at GCSE French counts.
Arguably, I couldn't actually get higher than a C at GCSE French because there was no intermediate paper and, because I was moved from the lower class to the higher one half way through the year it would have been disadvantagous for me to be put in for the Higher paper. It doesn't help that people in this country, generally speaking, are very bad with languages. Chiefly, I think because we are only taught them very late. As anyone who has studied language aquisition would know, the optimal time for learning language is something like up to 8 years old. After that it's all downhill and those bits of your brain that absorb language easily stop doing so. This means that only the particularly gifted will ever actually be able to pick up a language fluently. I'd love to try, even now, to finish French, or learn Italian, but most of the adult courses are based on auditory learning which really, really doesn't work for me. I'm better off learning to read and write something first before tackling the issue of pronunciation or ordering coffee or whatever the CD wants me to do.
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I haven't got my swapshop points yet, though am hopeful that the items should have arrived at the person's today so maybe he hasn't got to a computer yet. I will be patient. I WILL. In the meantime I uploaded a load of other stuff on there including a pile of Wolverine comics - one of which is a signed limited edition copy (I somehow ended up witht two, this happens sometimes because people who buy them for me as birthday/christmas presents don't know a lot about comics so it's kind of like 'oooh, this has Wolverine on the cover. Here!' which is wonderful and lovely of them, but does lead to occasional doubles coming along.
I had a driving lesson today that went well, but left me aching abominably. Tommorrow I have the dole and then Church Cleaning. Just thinking about it is a bit grey and blah really. Oh well, come Thursday afternoon and all such things will be behind me for a time, that'll be a relief.
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