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[dchenes]

On Friday or so I finally got the Alzheimer's translation done. Today is intrathecal clonidine day, and I haven't even touched the online medical dictionary instructions yet. Every time we workshop a translation for SciTechMed, we end up getting through more of it than the prof thought we would, and then we end up with another translation to do for the following week. Hopefully these instructions are the end of it. We've done (counting on fingers) fractals, jet pump instructions, the UCLA Loneliness Scale, instructions for an irrigation system, liquid crystals, chemical mechanics of Alzheimer's, summary of a study of intrathecal clonidine, and now the dictionary instructions. The first five of those are done and handed in, and only the first two have come back. The Alzheimer's and the clonidine are due tomorrow, and the dictionary instructions are being workshopped tomorrow. If we're going to keep putting in work like this, I want some feedback, dammit. I haven't had any since the third week of the semester.

And my printer, after going through more printing this semester than any semester previous, has run out of ink again. Since Kinko's and the laundromat are in the same building, it pretty much makes sense to go do laundry and buy ink so I can then come home afterward and print parallel texts. I could go argue with the laser printer in the lab, since parallel texts are a perfectly legitimate use of that printer, but that printer is almost always broken when needed. If I ever get rich off translation, I'm buying the grad lab a new printer.

I seem to be working my way around to being grumpy. I should probably go out and run errands (fresh air and exercise and all that).

Comments

[sebastian-tombs.livejournal.com]

I can absolutely agree with you on the desire for feedback. If you are doing something fundamentally wrong, or making some common thread of error, it would be valuable to actually know about it before the class is over.

As for the ink/laundry situation, please do not, in a fit of sleepy/cranky distractedness substitute your newly purchased printer ink for laundry detergent (or vice versa).

[dchenes.livejournal.com]

No chance, because I put off the laundry until tomorrow (due to being sucked bodily into the used CD store for an hour or so) (insert innocent look here).