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I went to sleep last night at almost 2 am, finishing John Sandford's Chosen Prey, which I had innocently picked up, it seems, simply to move it from the bedroom to the bookshelf early on Saturday.
I am a fast reader, so by stolen minutes, here and there, I had gotten about halfway through by the time I finished my first pass through the job yesterday. The rest is, well, sonic boom.
I woke up on my own at 7:30 am today, moped around until about 8 am, and then, satiated with coffee and buttered toast, sat down to review the job.
I did not do a detailed, word-by-word scrub. To do that with a 30,000-word docutment would take most of the day. Instead, I jumped around the document and checked sentences at random, sometimes going over them with a buffing cloth, and merely reading them to see if they sounded okay in other instances.
I found a few glitches in the course of a 90-minute review. In one place, I had left out a reference to either "the Customer" or "the Contractor" (I forget which, at the moment), but in a context where it was merely awkward, but not fatal. In another, I had indicated that a notification had been sent "by the Customer" instead of "to the Contractor," which is also not a terrible honker, in my opinion. All in all, the review convinced me that I had created a pretty solid translation.
Soon after I sent off the job and the invoice, Galina shooed me out the door for a visit to our tax preparer. Upon arriving at said preparer's office, we were told she'd be back in a couple of hours, so Galina and I went off to fill the Ford's gas tank, after which I had a bite to eat at the recently opened Panda Grill on Bay Area (nothing special to speak of) and we had coffee at the Starbucks.
Eventually, we had our appointment with the tax preparer, and I now have some marching orders.
I still have to take care of business, though. My translation client has a procedure in which they want to receive signed work orders back from translators, so I ought to go and get that done.
Receivables are lookin' good!
Cheers...
I am a fast reader, so by stolen minutes, here and there, I had gotten about halfway through by the time I finished my first pass through the job yesterday. The rest is, well, sonic boom.
I woke up on my own at 7:30 am today, moped around until about 8 am, and then, satiated with coffee and buttered toast, sat down to review the job.
I did not do a detailed, word-by-word scrub. To do that with a 30,000-word docutment would take most of the day. Instead, I jumped around the document and checked sentences at random, sometimes going over them with a buffing cloth, and merely reading them to see if they sounded okay in other instances.
I found a few glitches in the course of a 90-minute review. In one place, I had left out a reference to either "the Customer" or "the Contractor" (I forget which, at the moment), but in a context where it was merely awkward, but not fatal. In another, I had indicated that a notification had been sent "by the Customer" instead of "to the Contractor," which is also not a terrible honker, in my opinion. All in all, the review convinced me that I had created a pretty solid translation.
Soon after I sent off the job and the invoice, Galina shooed me out the door for a visit to our tax preparer. Upon arriving at said preparer's office, we were told she'd be back in a couple of hours, so Galina and I went off to fill the Ford's gas tank, after which I had a bite to eat at the recently opened Panda Grill on Bay Area (nothing special to speak of) and we had coffee at the Starbucks.
Eventually, we had our appointment with the tax preparer, and I now have some marching orders.
I still have to take care of business, though. My translation client has a procedure in which they want to receive signed work orders back from translators, so I ought to go and get that done.
Receivables are lookin' good!
Cheers...
