It's not allowed to be hopeless because Maman sighs over this Singular Shortcoming of yours. Elaborately. I didn't know sighs could be elaborate, but she's a force of nature unto herself. She's still not as scary as Grandmere though.

And I KNOW that's not how it works, I get near-daily lectures on how much it doesn't work like that but nobody gives me any time to do anything either, so short of discovering some spell for the sudden gift of being an idiot savant out of nowhere

Wait no

I'm not going to do this

This is not something to get all up in my feelings about

This is the whole point of the new year resolution thing

Ignore ^^^ most of that ^^^ except for the first part about French and my matriarchs being scary as all get-out. But yeah, I'll come to drama with you. Maybe meet some of fresh meat and scare them all with stories of the seniors.