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alexpgpMy weight has never really recovered from the excess food I consumed during the interpretation gig in late February/early March, and no matter what I've done the past few weeks, it keeps oscillating about 4 lb higher than when I started the whole weight-loss effort, so today, I broke out one of my thin paper notebooks and started to keep track of every blessed thing I put into my stomach.
While I don't have a comprehensive table of caloric values, at least this is a step toward understanding just what I'm stuffing past my taste buds.
* * * Galina and I watched The Good Shepherd today. I had trouble making out much of the conversation (or maybe that was something deliberate), but I nevertheless found it a good yarn that reminded me of LeCarré. In terms of "realism" (like, who cares?, but still...), between the kind of story you get in a typical Bond yarn and what was presented in TGS, I suspect that the reality is closer to the latter than the former.
* * * I got within 355 words last night before deciding there wasn't much of a percentage in chasing after completion for the sake of completion. I easily completed the assignment this morning and sent it off to the editor in Russia before the deadline.
Like documents before it, this one had been passed through a database of supposedly vetted translation memory segments, and I plan to needle the project manager with a number of short items that had to be, under the best circumstances, merely completely retranslated (in the not-so-best of circumstances, I had to monkey around with the translation memory software to undo damage, so to speak).
* * * I've signed up with twitter and jaiku (username "galexi" in both locations), just to see what - if anything - these services can bring to the table in terms of enabling my work. Since Jaiku has a major problem working with some US cell carriers (in terms of SMS), I downloaded an IM client for my BlackBerry (WebMessenger) that so far, looks like it might be helpful in this regard, and also signed up with IMified.
On the surface, I must observe that I find the concepts underlying these services to be pretty simple; perhaps too simple. But I guess one might say that the idea of providing a site where people could publish public (and semi-public) journal entries may not have been comprehensible back in 2000, either.
Who knows? Maybe all of this is completely useless, but I'm willing to keep an open mind while I determine if there's any benefit to using such services.
Gotta get up early tomorrow, for personal purposes. Then I have to get to sleep early, for an all-night sim on Tuesday morning.
Cheers...
While I don't have a comprehensive table of caloric values, at least this is a step toward understanding just what I'm stuffing past my taste buds.
Like documents before it, this one had been passed through a database of supposedly vetted translation memory segments, and I plan to needle the project manager with a number of short items that had to be, under the best circumstances, merely completely retranslated (in the not-so-best of circumstances, I had to monkey around with the translation memory software to undo damage, so to speak).
On the surface, I must observe that I find the concepts underlying these services to be pretty simple; perhaps too simple. But I guess one might say that the idea of providing a site where people could publish public (and semi-public) journal entries may not have been comprehensible back in 2000, either.
Who knows? Maybe all of this is completely useless, but I'm willing to keep an open mind while I determine if there's any benefit to using such services.
Gotta get up early tomorrow, for personal purposes. Then I have to get to sleep early, for an all-night sim on Tuesday morning.
Cheers...
