A mistake...
Sep. 4th, 2001 08:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpMaybe.
About an hour after my previous post, I was noticing that I couldn't concentrate very well and that I was tired. So, I went to sleep and zonked out pretty quick.
I woke up at around 5 pm and forced myself to snooze until about a quarter to six. I might have even gone back to sleep if some idiot hadn't called... I never noticed it before, but the sound of a ringing phone - even if it is muted by an intervening wall - really has a tendency to bring me out of a drowsy state.
Like that. Almost as if I could hear my synapses snapping to attention, feel my arteries expanding to accommodate sudden increased blood flow, tune my hearing sensitivity to "high," and taste how my eyes - even behind closed lids - were becoming more alert.
Ye gods.
Once I got up, I went back to the translation and got nailed again by whatever it is that's killing Word seemingly at random. I'm getting real good at retranslating stuff... I estimate I've lost about five-six pages of text by this point. But I'm also getting real good at hitting Shift-F12 almost as often as the space bar.
Anyway, over the past couple of hours, I've managed to translate myself down to the point where I have three pages of electronic text left to do, along with seven paper pages that don't have much text, just tables, so they ought to go fairly quickly. It's a few in front of 9 pm right now, and if I work for one more hour, I might whittle the electronic part down to two pages or less. If I get all of the translation done by the time I go to sleep, um, tomorrow, that'll leave me Thursday to give the piece the once-over and send it off. (Then again, given all of the little notes I've left for myself in the text, that once-over will not be a trivial glance.)
Good thing I asked for an extra day back there at the "assignment" phase of the job. :^)
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I finally figured out I need to have![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
news as a friend, since I'm getting a little sick and tired of finding out about what's going on and what all the new features are at LJ by reading my friends' posts. (No rancor in that last sentence, 'cept maybe to wonder what took me so long.)
Frankly, I don't know how to react to the idea of being a source of invitations to join LJ. My pessimal scenario is having one of the people who's been giving LJ a hard time start pestering individual LJ members for an invitation, with such LJers then becoming the targets of rage - with everything that such rage may imply - if invitations are not immediately forthcoming. Of course, as I said, that's my pessimal (as opposed to optimal) view of the world and may well be unrealistic.
Enough goldbricking! Back to work!
Cheers..
About an hour after my previous post, I was noticing that I couldn't concentrate very well and that I was tired. So, I went to sleep and zonked out pretty quick.
I woke up at around 5 pm and forced myself to snooze until about a quarter to six. I might have even gone back to sleep if some idiot hadn't called... I never noticed it before, but the sound of a ringing phone - even if it is muted by an intervening wall - really has a tendency to bring me out of a drowsy state.
Like that. Almost as if I could hear my synapses snapping to attention, feel my arteries expanding to accommodate sudden increased blood flow, tune my hearing sensitivity to "high," and taste how my eyes - even behind closed lids - were becoming more alert.
Ye gods.
Once I got up, I went back to the translation and got nailed again by whatever it is that's killing Word seemingly at random. I'm getting real good at retranslating stuff... I estimate I've lost about five-six pages of text by this point. But I'm also getting real good at hitting Shift-F12 almost as often as the space bar.
Anyway, over the past couple of hours, I've managed to translate myself down to the point where I have three pages of electronic text left to do, along with seven paper pages that don't have much text, just tables, so they ought to go fairly quickly. It's a few in front of 9 pm right now, and if I work for one more hour, I might whittle the electronic part down to two pages or less. If I get all of the translation done by the time I go to sleep, um, tomorrow, that'll leave me Thursday to give the piece the once-over and send it off. (Then again, given all of the little notes I've left for myself in the text, that once-over will not be a trivial glance.)
Good thing I asked for an extra day back there at the "assignment" phase of the job. :^)
I finally figured out I need to have
news as a friend, since I'm getting a little sick and tired of finding out about what's going on and what all the new features are at LJ by reading my friends' posts. (No rancor in that last sentence, 'cept maybe to wonder what took me so long.)Frankly, I don't know how to react to the idea of being a source of invitations to join LJ. My pessimal scenario is having one of the people who's been giving LJ a hard time start pestering individual LJ members for an invitation, with such LJers then becoming the targets of rage - with everything that such rage may imply - if invitations are not immediately forthcoming. Of course, as I said, that's my pessimal (as opposed to optimal) view of the world and may well be unrealistic.
Enough goldbricking! Back to work!
Cheers..
