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Winding down the year...
Dec. 29th, 2003 07:22 pmIt was a strange feeling this morning, walking around the store with the wireless-equipped Zaurus in my jacket pocket, moving from computer to computer and hitting the Apache server that was running on that selfsame Zaurus. I've been making notes all day long, intermittently, with the Z sitting quietly on the desk in the spare bedroom while I work in my basement office.
More translation work came my way today; two jobs. One due the 15th of January (the due date must be a mistake; nobody can wait that long for a translation!), the other due in two parts: the first by COB tomorrow and the second by COB on the 2nd of January. I also got a phone call asking about some stuff that arrived in a FedEx about a week ago, and need to get onto that, too.
The paper chase continued today; I feel as if I am close to the end of the path. There's simply no more things to look at.
I finished the first CD in the Michel Thomas Spanish series, and the male student in the recording is really getting on my nerves, although his hesitation and horrible pronunciation does give me an opportunity to tune him out and compose responses to the "professor's" questions without having to repeatedly hit the pause button on my CD player (essentially calling for me to sit with my finger on said button, which is not something I look forward to).
On the other hand, my confidence in being able to express myself in Spanish is much higher now than it was, say two weeks ago, when I could reasonably pidgin my way through a transaction wherein I sold a Mexico-optimized telephone card to a customer and made change. I left the store today before an opportunity to use my new knowledge presented itself, but I'll bide my time. Meanwhile, there are 7 more CDs to listen to, though not tonight.
Time to go relax... it's been a long day.
Cheers...
More translation work came my way today; two jobs. One due the 15th of January (the due date must be a mistake; nobody can wait that long for a translation!), the other due in two parts: the first by COB tomorrow and the second by COB on the 2nd of January. I also got a phone call asking about some stuff that arrived in a FedEx about a week ago, and need to get onto that, too.
The paper chase continued today; I feel as if I am close to the end of the path. There's simply no more things to look at.
I finished the first CD in the Michel Thomas Spanish series, and the male student in the recording is really getting on my nerves, although his hesitation and horrible pronunciation does give me an opportunity to tune him out and compose responses to the "professor's" questions without having to repeatedly hit the pause button on my CD player (essentially calling for me to sit with my finger on said button, which is not something I look forward to).
On the other hand, my confidence in being able to express myself in Spanish is much higher now than it was, say two weeks ago, when I could reasonably pidgin my way through a transaction wherein I sold a Mexico-optimized telephone card to a customer and made change. I left the store today before an opportunity to use my new knowledge presented itself, but I'll bide my time. Meanwhile, there are 7 more CDs to listen to, though not tonight.
Time to go relax... it's been a long day.
Cheers...
