Grumpy academic is grumpy

Sep 07, 2012 11:42

I love that the European Court of Human Rights makes webcasts of hearings available in both English and French. That's good public relations policy. I do, however, wish that they would get interpreters who matched the gender of the speaker. Watching a grand old male judge speak in a very clearly young female voice is... confusing ( Read more... )

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poetic_self September 7 2012, 10:09:47 UTC
I just made coffee. Want some? :)

Also, you sound fully engrossed and somewhat grumpily-happily busy. I take it work is progressing in Utrecht, then? *G*

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evilgeniuslady September 7 2012, 13:04:17 UTC
Oh yes, please! The coffee machine here is located downstairs, and the stairs are really steep, so I tend to not go down there unless the cravings get too desperate. Which, you know, they sometimes do. *g*

Work is actually progressing, yes! More slowly than I would prefer, but that's always the case, so I'm just going to count the four pages written this week as a win. Apparently I really needed this change in my surroundings.

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