This post can most definitely be classified as reporting on the mundane, but I've recently discovered something incredible. French people use graph paper at work instead of lined paper. Like, not just the scientists who want to make sure they draw a symmetric parabola. Everyone uses it. On my first day of work I was asked to attend a meeting at 10am right out of the gate (which was conducted entirely in French, btw, yikes!). But instead of a crisp pad of legal paper or a lined notebook, I'm handed graphing paper that is totally disguised as something I would actually want to take notes on: I honestly didn't know what to make of it. This just will not work for me. It makes my head hurt to think about how I am supposed to fit words into the tiny squares. Do I take two blocks for each line of text and write big? Cave to societal pressure and stick to a "one block - one line" policy? I'm pretty sure I'm doing it all wrong, and because it's me, I'm not even consistent in my incorrect note-taking behavior.
My solution: ask my incredibly kind office mate to order properly lined paper without vertical interruption, and then I horde it like the good American girl that I am who absolutely cannot bear the thought of writing on top of squares all day.
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Casey
12/11/2013 01:00:08 pm
I don't know, Lady K. There's something about the order of those graphing notebooks that makes me wish that's what we used over on this side of the pond!!!
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Kelsey
12/19/2013 01:25:00 pm
I think you'd actually love it, Lady! I'll snag you a notebook or two so that you can try it out :)
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