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Taking it (relatively) easy...
Feb. 7th, 2010 02:29 pmI'm not going to have kittens if I don't do 2500 words today. My PM's initial estimate of the document size gave way to an OCR-based word count that is significantly lower, so if I do 1500 words today and manage to translate 2500 words over 5 of the next 6 days, I'll actually have two days to despeckle the job.
I am grateful - sort of - for distractions from this big job this past Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. On Wednesday, there was a short job I did for a once-in-a-while client that pushed a wake-up call in my face (my proofreading overlooked a pretty important omission whose existence defies belief, which is how I think it may have slipped by) as well as another short translation. Thursday provided a short translation, as did Friday, which also furnished an opportunity to write my LJ Idol essay.
Apropos of which, I have a hunch (I'll be happy to be proven wrong) the LJ Idol throwback/intersection themes will continue for at least one more week, possibly two, so I've been giving some thought to what I might write for the two topics I have not yet addressed. The effort won't go to waste if I'm wrong, because ideas have no expiration date.
It was snowing when I woke this morning, bright and early at 4 am. I dawdled in the sack until 5 am, but gave sleep up as a lost cause, especially as I had made a date to go over to the kids' place for breakfast this morning with some home-baked bread. I managed to convince Drew to pick me up and drop me off, since there was about a half-foot of new snow on our driveway. The weather forecasters predict we'll have four feet on the ground down at our elevation by Tuesday.
So, having translated one short item today already, and with one more short piece left, I feel better knowing I can handle such items and still address the big job. In any event, considering how early I got up, I'm not going to push myself too hard.
Cheers...
I am grateful - sort of - for distractions from this big job this past Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. On Wednesday, there was a short job I did for a once-in-a-while client that pushed a wake-up call in my face (my proofreading overlooked a pretty important omission whose existence defies belief, which is how I think it may have slipped by) as well as another short translation. Thursday provided a short translation, as did Friday, which also furnished an opportunity to write my LJ Idol essay.
Apropos of which, I have a hunch (I'll be happy to be proven wrong) the LJ Idol throwback/intersection themes will continue for at least one more week, possibly two, so I've been giving some thought to what I might write for the two topics I have not yet addressed. The effort won't go to waste if I'm wrong, because ideas have no expiration date.
It was snowing when I woke this morning, bright and early at 4 am. I dawdled in the sack until 5 am, but gave sleep up as a lost cause, especially as I had made a date to go over to the kids' place for breakfast this morning with some home-baked bread. I managed to convince Drew to pick me up and drop me off, since there was about a half-foot of new snow on our driveway. The weather forecasters predict we'll have four feet on the ground down at our elevation by Tuesday.
So, having translated one short item today already, and with one more short piece left, I feel better knowing I can handle such items and still address the big job. In any event, considering how early I got up, I'm not going to push myself too hard.
Cheers...
