God I have turned into a moaner. I apologise for all that. Let us dwell for a moment on the positives. My field methods class is going well. the informant/consultant is excellent and she brings along her kid who is very cute, and for a couple of the members of the class they are learning the ropes very well. One of them has an advantage in that he speaks a related language. One of the other potentially good students in that he has to communciate in his second language to find out about a third and sometimes his meaning is unclear. Unfortunately there is one struggler who is just not keeping up.
And now joy of joys the silver fox has called a meeting about one of his two main topics of discourse, luckily the slightly more interesting one, office admin