The weekend (and Monday) in brief

[selenay]

I finished the French course!! This is, of course, the single most important thing to happen this weekend. I did my aural exam, I'm reasonably confident that I have managed not to totally fail and it's all over...until February next year, of course :-)

Which means that I can now begin getting sorted out for the forthcoming Canada expedition. Departure: 12.05pm Saturday.

Did the important shopping and grabbing of books from the library. Have started considering which clothes I will need to take and what I plan to buy while I'm out there. I'm going to start building a wardrobe over there to make packing and travelling easier. Got a full back-up of my PC done yesterday for the first time since...er...my last Canada trip. Da and I plan to store the external hard-drive somewhere not at our house as a really safe back-up incase of fire or theft. Not that we're paranoid or anything.

Today is running surprisingly smoothly for a Monday. I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop.

Those of my RL friends who know who my employer is may be amused by the media announcement today that we will be marketing our own brand software. Considering my frequent IT-related woes, this idea is rather laughable. We are slightly concerned in case they make us use it in the office...

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[notsoshygirl.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on finishing the French course!

Off to Canada again? Have a wonderful time. Don't stress too much about sorting, packing and all that lot.

[selenay]

Indeed I am :-) It's kind of hard to believe that it's been over a year since my last trip. So I'm really looking forward to it and trying not to get too stressed about the packing stuff. I don't usually and I'm actually more organised than I was for the trip six weeks ago, so I'm feeling pretty good. I've at least had time to do the last minute shopping and there will be someone in the house during the day to keep an eye on my washing later in the week so that I don't have to do it all in the evenings. And most of the bathroom toiletries are already there, which saves a trip. Plus I'm planning to do some shopping to leave stuff over there this time, thus requiring fewer clothes in my suitcase on departure anyway (hopefully). Just gotta remember to pack my writing notebooks and lots of ink cartriges so that I can get my head into some fic :-)

Thanks for the congrats. Now I just have to wait and see whether I've passed!