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Feb. 24th, 2005 01:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dchenesAfter I got the complaining out of my system yesterday, I sat down and made the last four and a half pages of my second-draft translation coherent. That only took about four hours or so, and I managed to find the terms I needed in parallel texts. I didn't bother printing out the ones I found online, because I forgot to buy any printer paper yesterday, so I only have enough paper for the translation itself. But they're there, and if you put "dopaminergic lesion" or "plastic rigidity" into Google, you'll find it. I suppose I could have gotten fancy with it and put in the URLs as endnotes, but I didn't think of that and this is only a draft anyway. (I wish the scientific community would decide whether the brain's anatomy is supposed to be in English or in Latin. I've found "globus pallidum internum" and "external globus pallidum" in the same paragraph, two or three times now. And by the way, is it "globus pallidum" or "globus pallidus"? Make up your bloody minds, willya?)
In the "there's got to be a better way to do this stuff" category, I have to ask the resident MultiTerm guru what happened to the input model for paper sources. That was fun, in the last version; you entered the bibliographic information once and then linked to it whenever you cited something from that source. It would make my life a lot easier if they've resurrected that.
It feels utterly weird to be handing in a paper covered in highlighted text. In this case, if it's highlighted, it means I've already proved it's a valid term so don't bother making me prove it again, but it's still weird.
It's snowing again. I really wish it wouldn't. I discovered a compelling reason for keeping my laundry off the bedroom floor, yesterday; the bedroom floor is carpet over concrete, and the concrete is sitting on the ground, and if I leave a sweater on the floor, it gets COLD. I don't notice so much in the living room because I put an area rug over the carpet and I only leave paper, not clothing, all over the living room floor.
The next time I hit civilization, I need to go underwear-and-sock shopping. It's getting so I have to do laundry more often than is convenient.
When I remember and have breathing room, I should try to get ahold of the place I sent my resume to, just to find out if they received it. I sent it on Monday night and I haven't heard anything. Why are so many things about job-hunting versions of talking to a wall? Would it kill them to send a form "resume received" message back? At least then I'd know it got there, even if they deleted it the instant they got it. That, however, is a rantlet for another day.
Time to find some socks. My feet are freezing.
In the "there's got to be a better way to do this stuff" category, I have to ask the resident MultiTerm guru what happened to the input model for paper sources. That was fun, in the last version; you entered the bibliographic information once and then linked to it whenever you cited something from that source. It would make my life a lot easier if they've resurrected that.
It feels utterly weird to be handing in a paper covered in highlighted text. In this case, if it's highlighted, it means I've already proved it's a valid term so don't bother making me prove it again, but it's still weird.
It's snowing again. I really wish it wouldn't. I discovered a compelling reason for keeping my laundry off the bedroom floor, yesterday; the bedroom floor is carpet over concrete, and the concrete is sitting on the ground, and if I leave a sweater on the floor, it gets COLD. I don't notice so much in the living room because I put an area rug over the carpet and I only leave paper, not clothing, all over the living room floor.
The next time I hit civilization, I need to go underwear-and-sock shopping. It's getting so I have to do laundry more often than is convenient.
When I remember and have breathing room, I should try to get ahold of the place I sent my resume to, just to find out if they received it. I sent it on Monday night and I haven't heard anything. Why are so many things about job-hunting versions of talking to a wall? Would it kill them to send a form "resume received" message back? At least then I'd know it got there, even if they deleted it the instant they got it. That, however, is a rantlet for another day.
Time to find some socks. My feet are freezing.
