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Friday festivities...
Aug. 6th, 2010 09:20 pmI invested a couple of hours on a prospective job, editing a translation without sight of the source to make it read more colloquially. I learned that I would need the source to clarify questions (about a half dozen of them popped up in the course of editing 1,000 words or so), and got an idea of how long it would take to edit such a unit of work.
I sent the result to the prospective client, saying that I'd worry about pricing the job once I heard some encouragement to hear a price from his end. The client thanked me for investing time in the project and said the work was satisfactory, but that he was awaiting feedback from the end client, and so I wait.
My problem is that I need to bill a certain amount on a monthly basis to stay solvent, but editing - especially the kind of editing that's required for this job - isn't something one can charge that kind of money for, and the job's size and deadline pretty much ensure that whoever does it will spend most of their working hours on it. So we'll see.
In the meantime, I worked on a Soviet-era memoir, which gave me a mental workout outside the bounds of my comfort zone. The writer has a pretty good command of colloquial Russian, and has had me running to my print dictionaries (specifically, my four-volume set of Dal's Explanatory Dictionary of the Live Great Russian Language and Lubensky's Russian-English Dictionary of Idioms).
In other news, yesterday, I deviated from the road home from the county waste station on the outskirts of downtown to go visit Site Lima (one of my mushrooming haunts), but there wasn't a fruiting body to be seen. However, thunderstorms have been rolling through our area over the past couple of weeks with the regularity of commuter trains, dumping copious quantities of the wet stuff all over the place.
Although today was the first time in a while that I didn't hear thunder at some point during the day, the ground around the house is still wet from yesterday's rain. If this wet trend continues, we ought to have a pretty good mushroom season, and it ought to kick off in about two or three weeks.
Time to wind things down.
Cheers...
I sent the result to the prospective client, saying that I'd worry about pricing the job once I heard some encouragement to hear a price from his end. The client thanked me for investing time in the project and said the work was satisfactory, but that he was awaiting feedback from the end client, and so I wait.
My problem is that I need to bill a certain amount on a monthly basis to stay solvent, but editing - especially the kind of editing that's required for this job - isn't something one can charge that kind of money for, and the job's size and deadline pretty much ensure that whoever does it will spend most of their working hours on it. So we'll see.
In the meantime, I worked on a Soviet-era memoir, which gave me a mental workout outside the bounds of my comfort zone. The writer has a pretty good command of colloquial Russian, and has had me running to my print dictionaries (specifically, my four-volume set of Dal's Explanatory Dictionary of the Live Great Russian Language and Lubensky's Russian-English Dictionary of Idioms).
In other news, yesterday, I deviated from the road home from the county waste station on the outskirts of downtown to go visit Site Lima (one of my mushrooming haunts), but there wasn't a fruiting body to be seen. However, thunderstorms have been rolling through our area over the past couple of weeks with the regularity of commuter trains, dumping copious quantities of the wet stuff all over the place.
Although today was the first time in a while that I didn't hear thunder at some point during the day, the ground around the house is still wet from yesterday's rain. If this wet trend continues, we ought to have a pretty good mushroom season, and it ought to kick off in about two or three weeks.
Time to wind things down.
Cheers...
