Close shave...
Oct. 10th, 2007 11:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpWell... maybe not so close.
Despite the best (worst?) of intentions, I noodled around with the translation for a bit last night, putting a couple of pages under the belt so as to get a feeling for the level of difficulty. I figured the rest'd take me about 3-4 hours, since there was some similarity in sections (strength analyses are pretty boring if there are no surprises along the way), so I went to sleep with a clear conscience.
Shiloh got up up at the usual 6 am, and I sat down to work at around 7, with about 3,000 words left in the project. By 9 am, I had only translated 1000 words, which is pretty good for most people, but pretty bad for me, especially working on a subject that's so, um, near and dear to my heart (i.e., I've done a lot of these).
At that point, I started paying attention, because the project was due to the client by 1 pm, and at the rate I was going, I was cutting it pretty close.
I finished the first pass about half an hour ago, and sent off the final product (spell-checked and proofread one-over-lightly - hey, this is a rush job) just a few minutes ago.
Now I need to go find the lawyer and talk to him, call the cardio guys in Durango and arrange for an appointment, and start cleaning this place up (sad to say, I've allowed it to go "bachelor mode" on me since arriving... time to shut that noise down).
Cheers...
Despite the best (worst?) of intentions, I noodled around with the translation for a bit last night, putting a couple of pages under the belt so as to get a feeling for the level of difficulty. I figured the rest'd take me about 3-4 hours, since there was some similarity in sections (strength analyses are pretty boring if there are no surprises along the way), so I went to sleep with a clear conscience.
Shiloh got up up at the usual 6 am, and I sat down to work at around 7, with about 3,000 words left in the project. By 9 am, I had only translated 1000 words, which is pretty good for most people, but pretty bad for me, especially working on a subject that's so, um, near and dear to my heart (i.e., I've done a lot of these).
At that point, I started paying attention, because the project was due to the client by 1 pm, and at the rate I was going, I was cutting it pretty close.
I finished the first pass about half an hour ago, and sent off the final product (spell-checked and proofread one-over-lightly - hey, this is a rush job) just a few minutes ago.
Now I need to go find the lawyer and talk to him, call the cardio guys in Durango and arrange for an appointment, and start cleaning this place up (sad to say, I've allowed it to go "bachelor mode" on me since arriving... time to shut that noise down).
Cheers...
