An old vs. young moment last night.
Our Spanish homework the week before this was to prepare a crossword in Spanish.
I'd painstakingly created mine in powerpoint. Hours (well, felt like it) fiddling about with tiny boxes and aligning them and counting them correctly out.
I handed it in - horrible stark thing with loose lines of boxes straggling all over the page.
To see The Young handing in all sorts of beautifully square, solid colour between lines of emptiness, Times-worthy efforts.
I felt a bit faint and weak at my crossword failure. (#fail as The Young would say.)
But it turned out they'd only smartly googled 'making a crossword' and there are multiple web offerings which enable you to do exactly this.
Old Mother Time felt a little foolish.
Our Spanish homework the week before this was to prepare a crossword in Spanish.
I'd painstakingly created mine in powerpoint. Hours (well, felt like it) fiddling about with tiny boxes and aligning them and counting them correctly out.
I handed it in - horrible stark thing with loose lines of boxes straggling all over the page.
To see The Young handing in all sorts of beautifully square, solid colour between lines of emptiness, Times-worthy efforts.
I felt a bit faint and weak at my crossword failure. (#fail as The Young would say.)
But it turned out they'd only smartly googled 'making a crossword' and there are multiple web offerings which enable you to do exactly this.
Old Mother Time felt a little foolish.
posted by Claire at 9:22 am
2 Comments:
Pity there had been no one there from the pencil and paper age to make you feel slightly less decrepit.
There were, several. But that's more a computer possession thing than an age thing, I think.
So it didn't lessen the decrepitude.
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