There's nothing like a kick the butt...
Nov. 22nd, 2009 03:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgp...to get one going, especially on Sunday!
I had promised a rather large job for "Sunday" without specifying what time, so of course the client assumed I meant by about noon or so, whereas by 11 am I still had 2700 source words left to do.
When email failed to rouse me (I only look like I am joined at the hip to my email), I got a call asking when the translation would be delivered, and we settled on a deadline of 5 pm ET (which just happens to be the deadline for this week's LJ Idol entry, but I digress...).
Fortunately, if you do this sort of thing long enough, and if you're well acquainted with the jargon, it's possible to (crosses fingers) really plow through the text. I even managed to despeckle the thing, to a degree.
Now I am completely spent. I think I'll go do my vegetable impression for a while, and contemplate the fluid dynamics involved in emptying a can of beer. Or two.
Cheers...
I had promised a rather large job for "Sunday" without specifying what time, so of course the client assumed I meant by about noon or so, whereas by 11 am I still had 2700 source words left to do.
When email failed to rouse me (I only look like I am joined at the hip to my email), I got a call asking when the translation would be delivered, and we settled on a deadline of 5 pm ET (which just happens to be the deadline for this week's LJ Idol entry, but I digress...).
Fortunately, if you do this sort of thing long enough, and if you're well acquainted with the jargon, it's possible to (crosses fingers) really plow through the text. I even managed to despeckle the thing, to a degree.
Now I am completely spent. I think I'll go do my vegetable impression for a while, and contemplate the fluid dynamics involved in emptying a can of beer. Or two.
Cheers...
