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The party never ends...
Feb. 6th, 2012 10:58 pmWork began to trickle in around 8:30 in the morning, and by 1 pm, it had become a torrent.
I am not complaining.
I say that because, as of this morning, my billings represented 2 days of work while today's the 6th, and while it's one thing to be four days behind at the end of the month, it's an entirely different feeling to be four days behind so close to the start of the month. Fortunately, with today's assignments, I will be more than caught up, billings-wise, for a bit.
The gent for whom I did a literary translation of a piece he wrote—about a San Francisco artist who originally hailed from Russia—dropped me an email to say his book has been published, and he will be sending me a copy. I'm actually curious to see what a translation of mine might look like in published form. The last time that happened was somewhere near the beginning of my translation career, when a series of my translations appeared in various scientific journals attributing me as the translator.
The inexorable march of the digital age takes its toll. For the past six months, I've been logging my work using a LiveScribe pen and notebook, which is pretty neat because the pen works in conjunction with the notebook paper to create a digital record of what's written, so even if I'm abroad without my notebook, I can still see what was written there the last time I plugged in my pen and did a synchronization.
I had devised a pretty good system in which each page of the notebook held all of the requisite information for an assignment, including the all-important invoicing information.
Recently, however, I've begun to mirror the information entered using my notebook system in org mode available in the Emacs editor. I've gone further, incorporating quite a bit of scheduling information, too, and not just for work, so that I'm now sort of addicted to its use. Two keystrokes immediately show me what's due, what's overdue, what's coming up, and what I should be doing (e.g., in terms of exercise and language learning).
In any event, I find it's easier to keep track of translation assignments using org mode in Emacs. I have now have visual cues telling me what's due, when, what's in my invoice queue, what's in my payment deposit queue, and so on. And the record is ever so much more searchable than the LiveScribe notes.
That doesn't mean I'm retiring the pen—oh, no. It's pretty valuable for the other note-taking I do around here.
But it's getting late. I missed all but the final few minutes of the Super Bowl yesterday; I missed Alcatraz and Castle tonight. I am pretty tired (Shiloh woke me at 3:40 am to go out). So I'm going to call it a night.
Hey! It! You're a night!
Cheers...
I am not complaining.
I say that because, as of this morning, my billings represented 2 days of work while today's the 6th, and while it's one thing to be four days behind at the end of the month, it's an entirely different feeling to be four days behind so close to the start of the month. Fortunately, with today's assignments, I will be more than caught up, billings-wise, for a bit.
The gent for whom I did a literary translation of a piece he wrote—about a San Francisco artist who originally hailed from Russia—dropped me an email to say his book has been published, and he will be sending me a copy. I'm actually curious to see what a translation of mine might look like in published form. The last time that happened was somewhere near the beginning of my translation career, when a series of my translations appeared in various scientific journals attributing me as the translator.
The inexorable march of the digital age takes its toll. For the past six months, I've been logging my work using a LiveScribe pen and notebook, which is pretty neat because the pen works in conjunction with the notebook paper to create a digital record of what's written, so even if I'm abroad without my notebook, I can still see what was written there the last time I plugged in my pen and did a synchronization.
I had devised a pretty good system in which each page of the notebook held all of the requisite information for an assignment, including the all-important invoicing information.
Recently, however, I've begun to mirror the information entered using my notebook system in org mode available in the Emacs editor. I've gone further, incorporating quite a bit of scheduling information, too, and not just for work, so that I'm now sort of addicted to its use. Two keystrokes immediately show me what's due, what's overdue, what's coming up, and what I should be doing (e.g., in terms of exercise and language learning).
In any event, I find it's easier to keep track of translation assignments using org mode in Emacs. I have now have visual cues telling me what's due, when, what's in my invoice queue, what's in my payment deposit queue, and so on. And the record is ever so much more searchable than the LiveScribe notes.
That doesn't mean I'm retiring the pen—oh, no. It's pretty valuable for the other note-taking I do around here.
But it's getting late. I missed all but the final few minutes of the Super Bowl yesterday; I missed Alcatraz and Castle tonight. I am pretty tired (Shiloh woke me at 3:40 am to go out). So I'm going to call it a night.
Hey! It! You're a night!
Cheers...
