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Almost enough to cry "Uncle!"
Dec. 16th, 2003 11:22 pmToday was not quite a repeat of yesterday at the store, but there were still quite a number of packages to process for UPS and FedEx, not to mention the Old Standby: the U.S. mail.
Galina and I opened the store this morning after getting a call from Drew, and I went back home around 9:30 am or so to take care of business (invoices, etc.), mostly because I had not yet gotten the document that had been assigned yesterday. It finally arrived, all 9000 words of it, and boy, is it a doozie!
However, I didn't get to start on it until fairly late. I went back to the store a little before 2 pm and processed packages until the UPS pickup at 4 pm. Then Galina and I went home and I took a nap that lasted until almost 6:30 pm. Fifteen minutes later, I had wolfed down a couple of hot dogs and was sitting at my computer, looking at the assignment with disgust.
The beginning of the text is that curious combination of psychobabble that educators use in describing the process of learning, in which they define and distinguish "knowledge," "skills," "proficiency," and so on. My curiosity was piqued for a moment when i ran across a bullet point that noted the importance of mnemonic techniques in training, but for the most part, I progressed at a snail's pace, hoping I was making the right choices in my use of terminology.
After nearly two and a half hours, I'd only done 1100 words. At that rate, the end of the document would be only twenty-some hours off (the deadline is Thursday noon). Considering all the other demands on my time, that alternative did not appeal to me. I applied myself.
Approximately two hours later, I had finished a little over 3200 words and determined that the last 6 pages of the document are largely restated versions of stuff I've done before, leaving just under 5000 source words to translate, which at my "applied" rate should take 6-8 hours, plus a couple of hours for cleanup and review. Now that sounds a lot better to me.
* * * After doing the invoices, I finally was able to whip my Litestep desktop into some kind of basic shape. Instead of having icons littered all over the screen, I have two neat columns of small icons and text on either side of the screen, despicting all the applications and folders I normally use, with a pleasing screenshot behind it all. Someday, when I have the time, I might bang on the desktop some more. Someday.
Cheers...
Galina and I opened the store this morning after getting a call from Drew, and I went back home around 9:30 am or so to take care of business (invoices, etc.), mostly because I had not yet gotten the document that had been assigned yesterday. It finally arrived, all 9000 words of it, and boy, is it a doozie!
However, I didn't get to start on it until fairly late. I went back to the store a little before 2 pm and processed packages until the UPS pickup at 4 pm. Then Galina and I went home and I took a nap that lasted until almost 6:30 pm. Fifteen minutes later, I had wolfed down a couple of hot dogs and was sitting at my computer, looking at the assignment with disgust.
The beginning of the text is that curious combination of psychobabble that educators use in describing the process of learning, in which they define and distinguish "knowledge," "skills," "proficiency," and so on. My curiosity was piqued for a moment when i ran across a bullet point that noted the importance of mnemonic techniques in training, but for the most part, I progressed at a snail's pace, hoping I was making the right choices in my use of terminology.
After nearly two and a half hours, I'd only done 1100 words. At that rate, the end of the document would be only twenty-some hours off (the deadline is Thursday noon). Considering all the other demands on my time, that alternative did not appeal to me. I applied myself.
Approximately two hours later, I had finished a little over 3200 words and determined that the last 6 pages of the document are largely restated versions of stuff I've done before, leaving just under 5000 source words to translate, which at my "applied" rate should take 6-8 hours, plus a couple of hours for cleanup and review. Now that sounds a lot better to me.
Cheers...
