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<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 422785" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>I smiled at that one, Marguerite <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> ! Then, in rather pedantic, academic mode, I pondered what it was about the joke that MADE it funny and what would make one unable to see the humour in it but actually I couldn't unravel that... Humour is often based on our notion that things "are" or should be a certain way, of course, and so the upsetting of that order becomes "funny". Anyway, enough of the quasi-professor stuff, it made me laugh!</p><p>As did, actually, rlsnight's comments that my posts make it sound like I spend all my time with J! Sometimes it feels like that, but no - I work at home as a free-lance literary translator (hence the frequency of my posts - it's one of my little diversions, like making coffee <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> ), J goes to school all day and on the occasional weekends when I have a tight deadline and have to work, he goes to a childminder whom he has known since he was a baby and who has two children of similar age. Under the marvellous social assistance of France, most of the cost of this childcare is reimbursed by the state... Then in the summer he spends a month or so with his Moroccan family, and sometimes other school holidays. So I am far from having sole and entire care - I am just on a steep learning curve and seem rather overwhelmed at times !!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 422785, member: 11227"] I smiled at that one, Marguerite :-) ! Then, in rather pedantic, academic mode, I pondered what it was about the joke that MADE it funny and what would make one unable to see the humour in it but actually I couldn't unravel that... Humour is often based on our notion that things "are" or should be a certain way, of course, and so the upsetting of that order becomes "funny". Anyway, enough of the quasi-professor stuff, it made me laugh! As did, actually, rlsnight's comments that my posts make it sound like I spend all my time with J! Sometimes it feels like that, but no - I work at home as a free-lance literary translator (hence the frequency of my posts - it's one of my little diversions, like making coffee :-) ), J goes to school all day and on the occasional weekends when I have a tight deadline and have to work, he goes to a childminder whom he has known since he was a baby and who has two children of similar age. Under the marvellous social assistance of France, most of the cost of this childcare is reimbursed by the state... Then in the summer he spends a month or so with his Moroccan family, and sometimes other school holidays. So I am far from having sole and entire care - I am just on a steep learning curve and seem rather overwhelmed at times !! [/QUOTE]
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