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mental wanderings
May. 5th, 2004 01:28 pmIt is a truly gorgeous day out.
Apparently I had $6 in one of my pants pockets, because I found it in the bottom of the dryer. Hooray for minor riches!
I hand in my final translation tonight, and then my semester is over. Tomorrow I'm having a major cleaning fit and selling back a mess of plays I don't want to keep around. I keep translation theory books, and I kept the Communication Theory Reader from the semiotics course (the cover got mangled a bit and they probably won't take it back).
Summer projects (because I want to, not because I have to):
1. Translate L'Oiseau Bleu by Maeterlinck. It's the predecessor of The Wizard of Oz, and it's where Baum got a lot of his ideas. It'll also keep me used to translating, so I won't forget everything I ever learned.
2. Start designing a desk. I've talked to my father about building me a desk as a graduation present, and he said as long as I can tell him what I want, he can build it. I have ideas, but no drawings yet.
3. Grow cherry tomatoes on my patio, in flowerpots. I need to get the supplies for that. If I have to be stuck in the middle of nowhere all summer, I can at least have the indulgence of eating cherry tomatoes off the vine. In my opinion, that's the best way to eat cherry tomatoes, bar none. (It's also the best way, bar none, to eat peas, but it's too late to plant peas.)
Apparently I had $6 in one of my pants pockets, because I found it in the bottom of the dryer. Hooray for minor riches!
I hand in my final translation tonight, and then my semester is over. Tomorrow I'm having a major cleaning fit and selling back a mess of plays I don't want to keep around. I keep translation theory books, and I kept the Communication Theory Reader from the semiotics course (the cover got mangled a bit and they probably won't take it back).
Summer projects (because I want to, not because I have to):
1. Translate L'Oiseau Bleu by Maeterlinck. It's the predecessor of The Wizard of Oz, and it's where Baum got a lot of his ideas. It'll also keep me used to translating, so I won't forget everything I ever learned.
2. Start designing a desk. I've talked to my father about building me a desk as a graduation present, and he said as long as I can tell him what I want, he can build it. I have ideas, but no drawings yet.
3. Grow cherry tomatoes on my patio, in flowerpots. I need to get the supplies for that. If I have to be stuck in the middle of nowhere all summer, I can at least have the indulgence of eating cherry tomatoes off the vine. In my opinion, that's the best way to eat cherry tomatoes, bar none. (It's also the best way, bar none, to eat peas, but it's too late to plant peas.)
