Contemplation

"You know how sometimes you know nothing about someone, really, and you don't know if you could sit through a dinner with them or see yourself hanging out at their house regularly; or you don't know if they would like you at all or think you were massively ignorant and lose patience with you or enjoy your idiot sense of humour; or in fact if you could ever end up even remotely getting along... but... right there and then in the moment, you just really, really want to kiss them?

Yeah."

Hier

Among the random things that are making me happy recently are a very girly, spontaneous manicure and round two of French lessons.  

The nails, well, I'm enough of a magpie that looking at something sparkly every day makes me smile.  And French?  Well, apart from loving the language and enjoying the daily interaction - every lesson is a revelation -, as a teacher, I relish three hours of not being the one at the front of the class.

Instead of exercising the eyes in the back of my head, I'm quite content to open my books, lean back and let someone else take the reins.  

(Plus, one of the teachers is pretty funny and I have an entire secret sidebar in my notebook for his daily jokes, for example, "When you use the reflexive, you are doing something to yourself.  Like I bathe myself, or I dress myself, but there is one verb you are not allowed to use on yourself: to argue.  Because you can't argue with yourself.  Unless you're Gollum."  Oh, you!)