gah!

It's official; I'm a nonteaching graduate assistant. I now have a key to my advisor's office, so I can use her computer. This is extremely weird. I keep waiting for somebody to come and tell me it's been a mistake and I'm not allowed to work in her office any more. I don't know why I find it weird, but I do. I think partly it's because I don't feel like I'm earning my tuition and stipend by doing two hours of editing work per day, maximum, and chasing down e-mail addresses and doing other minor stuff like that. Granted, it hasn't really hit the fan yet, so I may feel more like I'm earning it later in the semester.

On the "I knew there was a reason I'm a student" front, I can get VirtualPC for free, so I can run Trados at home if I can get ahold of it for reasonably cheap. That would rock.

Localization is going to be a good class, too. They split it up into two different sections, so there are only fifteen people per section. The smaller the better, in terms of computer classes. I learned that one last semester when we were all taking Terminology together and everything took three times as long as it should've. (So with fifteen people, it'll only take one and a half times as long?)

I went to drop off my rent today and mentioned that my showerhead had sprung a leak straight up. Above the top edge of the shower stall, there's wallpaper, and I was afraid getting it wet so much would be a bad thing. Since I renewed my lease, they offered me several options for freebies, most of which I already have. The one I decided on was carpet cleaning. The showerhead was replaced today and the carpet gets cleaned the Monday after next.

Life goes, and I go with it, and things are pretty good.