Chores, a Step-by-Step Process

[tealin]

1. Decide to clean the kitchen (It needs doing, and my brain doesn't really get up to speed until noon, so might as well.)
2. Think: It'd be better to listen to some Francophone radio than my usual lineup of kitchen-cleaning CBC podcasts
3. Fight crashy crashy iTunes to find/download a few new episodes of Aujourd'hui l'histoire
4. Give up on crashy crashy iTunes and finally update it
5. Update goes unresponsive
6. Restart computer
7. Run update again
8. Meanwhile, finally get around to removing a bunch of programmes from running on startup
9. Restart again when prompted by iTunes
10. Download those episodes at last without crashing
11. Plug in iPod, find it's chock full of podcasts from three years ago
12. Hunt down, delete/uncheck existing podcasts
13. Sync with new French podcasts (baladodiffusion)
14. An hour later, finally start cleaning the kitchen.

My mum likes to call her mother tongue 'kitchen French' – amazing the lengths one has to go to, in this modern world, even to acquire that!