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Still... whatever I am...
May. 26th, 2009 06:42 pmI've been gulping vitamin C in fairly large quantities to fight whatever this thing is that's "bugging" me, and I'm not getting any worse, but neither am I getting any better... or maybe that's just my imagination.
In any event, I dropped a note to my project manager, explaining where I am and where I expect to be. Among other things, I had expected to polish off the last few thousand words of the surveying job in Moscow, but I find that no matter how I twist and turn, (a) I can't get my productivity up past 2,500 words per day, and (b) part of that has to do with the enormous amount of research I do trying to understand the text and find the right terms to express it.
So, I'm going to end up with a potentially huge amount of work that'll eat into my "free" time (there really isn't any, for interpreters) and require online access (which is not cheap in the center of Moscow).
Anyway, there's been no answer to my note asking for an extension, and if I don't hear something by noon my time tomorrow, I'm going to get a little more vocal. I figure I can get another 5,000 words of the job done before I leave, and that assumes I wake up tomorrow with no signs of whatever has been keeping me restless and between the covers for the past day and a half.
Cheers...
In any event, I dropped a note to my project manager, explaining where I am and where I expect to be. Among other things, I had expected to polish off the last few thousand words of the surveying job in Moscow, but I find that no matter how I twist and turn, (a) I can't get my productivity up past 2,500 words per day, and (b) part of that has to do with the enormous amount of research I do trying to understand the text and find the right terms to express it.
So, I'm going to end up with a potentially huge amount of work that'll eat into my "free" time (there really isn't any, for interpreters) and require online access (which is not cheap in the center of Moscow).
Anyway, there's been no answer to my note asking for an extension, and if I don't hear something by noon my time tomorrow, I'm going to get a little more vocal. I figure I can get another 5,000 words of the job done before I leave, and that assumes I wake up tomorrow with no signs of whatever has been keeping me restless and between the covers for the past day and a half.
Cheers...
