ابني سألني كيف كنت بعرف أي ضيف بده يحكي وأي واحد بده مفتاحه ويسكت. قلتله من طريقة وقفته، بس هيدا جواب ناقص، لأنو في ناس بتضحك وهي مش طايقة حدا. صرت أتذكّر الوجوه من الأوتيل وأنا عم سوق، كيف واحد بيعيد نفس السؤال لأنو بدّه صحبة مش لأنو ما فهم الجواب. بالسرفيس كمان هيك، بس الوقت أقل والكل سامع بعضه. ابني كان سؤاله بسيط وأنا عملتلو محاضرة ضيافة، بعدين اكتشفت إنو عنده رفيق ساكت بالصف وعم يحاول يفهمه. هلّق عم فكّر إذا كل هالخبرة تبعي بتفيد بهيك شي، أو الأحسن كان اسأله من الأول عن رفيقه بدل ما احكيله عنّي.

A family thanked me for remembering which cup their mother liked to use while we talked through the service. It was such a small thing that I almost explained it away. Later I felt pleased, then oddly sad, because I remembered how grateful I'd been for little details at my grandmother's funeral. I don't usually connect every family to my own. That would be unfair to them and exhausting for me. This time it happened before I could choose. I sat in the car for a few minutes afterward, not crying or having some terrible crisis, just missing her and wishing I could tell her what my job is like now.

A Year 8 student waited until everyone else had left to show me a correct answer. He had erased most of the working and wanted to know whether it still counted. I said it counted, but I wanted to see how he got there. He reconstructed it slowly, with three false starts, then grinned at the page rather than at me. I was pleased in a way the whole-class results rarely manage. Later a colleague asked why I was late to the meeting and I said a student had needed help. That was accurate, though it left out the part I would have preferred to keep doing.

i keep doing the numbers for switching back to days, usually when i should be asleep. the extra night pay covers enough of the rent that it isn't a small decision, but i also keep counting the evenings my boyfriend and i are technically home together while i'm unconscious. wrote down what we actually spent last month instead of estimating, then got distracted wondering how to ask my manager without sounding like i regret the whole arrangement. she hasn't even been difficult about it, this is a conversation i've invented. i need the budget first. otherwise i'll ask two people and just take whichever answer costs them less trouble.

Meu pai mandou áudio contando que encontrou um passageiro antigo, o homem lembrava até onde ele parava o ônibus pra esperar uma senhora mais lenta. Fiquei toda boba ouvindo ele contar, tava orgulhoso mas fazendo voz de quem só tava dando notícia. Quis ligar na hora, ele não atendeu, aí escutei de novo. Antes ele falava tão pouco que agora dá vontade de guardar tudo, até quando repete uma história inteira. Mandei pra minha irmã e ela disse já recebi kkkk, o homem descobriu o disparo em massa. Fiquei feliz mesmo assim, gosto demais de imaginar ele sendo reconhecido na rua por uma coisa boa.

Meine Freundin hatte ihren freien Abend mit jemand anderem verplant, weil ich sonst meistens fahre. War diesmal frei und direkt beleidigt, obwohl wir nichts ausgemacht hatten. Ich hab gefragt, ob ich mich jetzt schriftlich anmelden muss, sie fand das erwartbar wenig lustig. Danach war mein Ärger schon fast weg, ihrer nicht, und ich wollte wieder so tun, als könnten wir einfach über Essen reden. Ging nicht. Es nervt mich, dass ich sofort große Sprüche mache, wenn ich eigentlich nur gedacht hatte, wir hätten Zeit zusammen. Hab ihr das noch gesagt. Sie ist trotzdem losgegangen, natürlich, die Verabredung gab es ja schon.

ছোট নাকফুলটির পিন ধরতে সকালে দুবার চিমটা বদলাতে হলো। আঙুলের গাঁট তখনও শক্ত, চাপ দিচ্ছি অথচ ডগায় ঠিকমতো পৌঁছাচ্ছে না। পাশের ছেলেটি চা এনে রাখল, গরম কাপের গায়ে হাত রেখে খানিক বসে থাকলাম। তারপর কাজটি হলো, তাড়াহুড়া ছাড়াই হলো। এই বয়সে প্রতিদিন হাত একই রকম থাকে না, তা জানি, কিন্তু প্রথম চেষ্টায় না পারলে এখনও বিরক্ত হই। দুপুরে বাড়ি ফিরে জামার বোতাম খুলতে কোনো অসুবিধা হয়নি। স্ত্রী বলল আজ মুখ ভালো দেখাচ্ছে। তাকে নাকফুলের কথা বলিনি, বললাম গরম কম ছিল। আসলে ওই ছোট পিনটি ঠিকমতো বসানোর পর থেকে হাত দুটোকে আর এত ভারী লাগছিল না।

ma sœur m'a envoyé une photo de son kot avec une étagère toute de travers et elle a demandé si papa allait trouver ça grave. j'ai rigolé puis j'ai zoomé pour voir comment c'était fixé, comme si c'était moi qu'elle avait appelé pour réparer. ça faisait plaisir qu'elle me raconte un truc nul de sa journée et pas juste qu'elle a des cours et qu'elle rentre pas ce week-end. j'ai envoyé une photo du chien couché devant son ancienne porte, sans rien mettre avec. elle a répondu qu'il lui manquait. j'ai mis ouais il prend de la place maintenant, je savais pas trop quoi répondre d'autre

After carrying equipment up and down the ladder, my thighs were shaking a little when I finally sat in the workshop. While working I had kept telling the boys to drink water, then found my own bottle almost full beside the tools. Very good supervisor, poor example. I drank and stayed seated while one of them put away the lighter things. The tiredness was ordinary enough, but I don't like the ringing in my ears after being near a generator for too long; at home I asked Amina to repeat herself twice. I was about to blame the children for making noise. They were noisy, yes, but that was not the whole matter.

Eine Warenbeschreibung bestand heute aus drei sehr allgemeinen Wörtern, und die junge Kollegin wollte gleich die Nummer übernehmen, die beim letzten Auftrag verwendet worden war. Ich konnte verstehen, warum: gleicher Kunde, ähnliche Verpackung. Nur wussten wir noch gar nicht, ob innen dasselbe lag. Mir fällt auf, wie überzeugend eine vollständig ausgefüllte Bildschirmmaske wirkt, selbst wenn eine wichtige Angabe fehlt. Auf Papier hätte man die Lücke vielleicht eher gesehen. Wir haben eine konkrete Rückfrage geschickt, jetzt warten wir. Ich habe mir notiert, bei der nächsten Einweisung nicht mit den Eingabefeldern anzufangen, sondern damit, was wir überhaupt sicher über die Ware wissen.