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Oct. 18th, 2004 04:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dchenesToday it's cold and grey and raining. According to the weather map earlier, there are about three states in the entire country where it's raining, and I'm in one of them. Somehow that figures.
I'm considering not going to karate tonight, because I haven't been what you'd call awake all day, and besides the second half of the Farscape miniseries is on tonight. (Yes, I know, that's what programmable VCRs are for.) I tried to tape the first half last night, and my supposedly two-hour tape stopped after an hour and a half. If I do go to karate tonight, I'll get back home around 10:00, so I'll only need to tape the first hour or so tonight. I think I wouldn't even be having this discussion with myself if it wasn't raining and looking like it's never going to stop. It's about a 25-minute walk to the rec center from here and I'm not terribly fond of long walks in cold rain.
As near as I can figure, the embroidery stuff I ordered before I left got here the day I left. (It was on the bottom of the pile of junk mail in my mailbox.) So now I have linen to cut up (I had to order more than I really needed) and hem. I also have to get ahold of about five or six skeins of white floss, which entails either more mail-order or a several-mile walk, neither of which is happening today, thank you.
On to the good stuff...I got both my final Advanced Composition project and my case study approved, so I can stop worrying so much about those. I just have to fill out the prospectus form for the case study, and start thinking about cultural equivalents for the composition project (I'm translating a children's book, which is very British in places, into French).
As it turns out, the thesaurus I bought is a Canadian one. I've got four languages' worth of equivalents in my references; my brain uses American English, my bilingual dictionary uses British English and European French, and my thesaurus uses Canadian French. I really want to know where the Francophone world gets its reference-book names from; my dictionary is the Petit Robert, and my thesaurus is the Petit Druid. (Yes, there is a Grand Robert; it's the French equivalent of the OED, and it costs a LOT.)
I have a whole list of stuff to do for my advisor, but I think it's going to wait until tomorrow. There's nothing I can really do from here and it's too late to do any of it in her office today.
I'm considering not going to karate tonight, because I haven't been what you'd call awake all day, and besides the second half of the Farscape miniseries is on tonight. (Yes, I know, that's what programmable VCRs are for.) I tried to tape the first half last night, and my supposedly two-hour tape stopped after an hour and a half. If I do go to karate tonight, I'll get back home around 10:00, so I'll only need to tape the first hour or so tonight. I think I wouldn't even be having this discussion with myself if it wasn't raining and looking like it's never going to stop. It's about a 25-minute walk to the rec center from here and I'm not terribly fond of long walks in cold rain.
As near as I can figure, the embroidery stuff I ordered before I left got here the day I left. (It was on the bottom of the pile of junk mail in my mailbox.) So now I have linen to cut up (I had to order more than I really needed) and hem. I also have to get ahold of about five or six skeins of white floss, which entails either more mail-order or a several-mile walk, neither of which is happening today, thank you.
On to the good stuff...I got both my final Advanced Composition project and my case study approved, so I can stop worrying so much about those. I just have to fill out the prospectus form for the case study, and start thinking about cultural equivalents for the composition project (I'm translating a children's book, which is very British in places, into French).
As it turns out, the thesaurus I bought is a Canadian one. I've got four languages' worth of equivalents in my references; my brain uses American English, my bilingual dictionary uses British English and European French, and my thesaurus uses Canadian French. I really want to know where the Francophone world gets its reference-book names from; my dictionary is the Petit Robert, and my thesaurus is the Petit Druid. (Yes, there is a Grand Robert; it's the French equivalent of the OED, and it costs a LOT.)
I have a whole list of stuff to do for my advisor, but I think it's going to wait until tomorrow. There's nothing I can really do from here and it's too late to do any of it in her office today.
