Ok, so a while back I told my old manager that if he was in a real bind I could volunteer a bit of time to help him out. Well he finally took me up on it and now I’m stuck helping someone who doesn’t want my help to draft a presentation. The main problem is that the distance between the summary she first sent and what we need for a final presentation is, well vast to say the least.

This woman is quite a bit older than me and in a substantially superior position so I have to sugar coat every critisism…in French. Honestly it will be a miracle if this works out. She doesn’t understand why her presentation isn’t good enough for this miscelaneous girl, I don’t understand why she cares enough to not just let me re-write it.

“Middle gorund…Hello…Where are you?” Oh yeah, in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Yep that’s right, to make matters worse we have to do this whole thing virtually over the internet.

You know, somewhere between writing a six page long email and the simple phrase, “Oh just let me do it.” is the answer to my quandry. Somewhere between, “You suck.” and “Who the hell are you to critisize me.” is a cheesy, but beautiful, first meeting scene waiting to happen. Somewhere between my bad French and her bad French is something that resembles a complete and coherent sentence.

But where, oh where?