...did I accidentally screen this? I'm not sure how.

Thanks -- I am feeling better. And thanks for the links and the language offer too -- I didn't realise French was your first language. Actually, one thing you could maybe do -- if you know of some short, simple, possibly trashy but not-boring books I could try to read, that would help. As an example of what I mean -- I read a Mills and Boone-type book in Italian once. It was about the sort of thing I wanted, although it was a terribly boring example of its kind and I wanted to smack both the hero and heroine throughout. Also it was a translation from English which wasn't ideal.

I used to have fairly decent intermediate-level French, and I'm shocked at how far it's gone, and I want it back -- I'm using Michel Thomas' awesome series of courses.