Thus begins my two years as a grad student - orientation! Three and a half days of it, to be exact, beginning today after lunch. Luckily I found out that I'm not the ONLY one coming back to school after some time "off." Mine wasn't much of a vacation, since I was working while DH was finishing his undergrad, but still, I wasn't in school. However, I'm a bit concerned about the idea that I'm supposed to be functionally proficient in some language other than English in two years. I am terrible at learning languages, as evidenced by the fact that I had 4 years of high school Latin and 4 years of college Spanish and can read/speak neither. I can puzzle out some things, but I'm not exactly functional in them.
So... any suggestions, anyone? Keep in mind that this is to be a language suitable for getting me a job in national security. So far I am leaning towards Hindi or Mandarin as the most useful, though not necessarily the most possible.
Malachite cube earrings. I love malachite - it's so very green, and yet so very... interesting looking. Rocks are great! I think I'm a rockaholic. I haven't done anything with my new moonstone beads yet except take them off the string and admire them. I guess I'm really a crow at heart - anything shiny is irresistable.
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