I paid for my Saturday laziness with a final word count of 12,500 target words done between yesterday and today. A nice payday, certainly, and my knowledge of launch vehicle hardware has been enhanced, too, but I feel like something the cat wouldn't bother to drag in.
The rest of this week was spoken for last Friday, so I've spent most of the day (when I wasn't translating) fending off new work. I hate doing that, but there it is.
* * *Ages ago, I used to belong to an old-style mailing list called LANTRA-L, based out of a server in Sweden. Eventually, the traffic went up and the signal-to-noise ratio dropped below my perception, mostly the result of people engaging in apropos (not!) political discussions on a list intended for translators, so I unsubscribed.
During the ATA conference in New York, I ran across an old acquaintance who also works in my language pair, also attended Stony Brook (albeit our careers there did not "overlap," as it were), and also subscribed to LANTRA. He told me of an offshoot, called Rosetta-L, over on Google, so I went over soon after the conference ended and joined, setting my preferences such, as to force me to visit if I wanted to catch up on goings-on.
I promptly never fell into the habit, and over the course of the several days I stayed away, a long-time participant of both the Rosetta and LANTRA lists died while in childbirth, and when I finally did drop in, the mood was quite somber, and continues to be pretty gloomy, but I'm sure folks'll recover eventually. There sure are a lot of familiar names from the "old days."
For some reason, I keep thinking tomorrow is Wednesday, which it isn't, so I don't have to get up at oh-six-hundred to get ready for a day of support in Building 4. I do have a pile of translation work to do, though.
Cheers...
