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Sep. 14th, 2004 03:20 pmMy carpets didn't get cleaned yesterday. I found a note on my door this morning saying "sorry, couldn't do it yesterday, but we'll do it today if you tell us we can come in." So I went to the management office on my way out this morning and told them to please come clean my carpets.
Went off to work and finished typing the article I worked on for five hours yesterday. It was a question of typing it or scanning it, and I don't know anywhere there's a scanner I could have used, so I typed it. (Besides which, I have yet to meet an OCR program that knows English, never mind one that knows French. I probably would have spent five hours formatting the damn thing if I had scanned it.) The copy I was working from was 23 pages, double-spaced, in French. I now know about almost every possible way to produce accent marks in Windows XP. On the way to figuring that out, I figured out how to get around the apostrophe and quotation marks problem that drove me to distraction last year.
After I got the article typed and mostly formatted, I went off to the library to look up jet pump parts. Routledge's Technical Dictionary is a wonderful thing. It has two volumes, one of which is English-French, and the other of which is French-English. Between the dictionary and the parallel texts I found last week, I'm in pretty good shape, I think.
What I'm not in good shape with is my composition exercises. I did the exercises we don't have to hand in (all 20-some-odd of them), and then looked at what we do have to hand in. Suffice it to say it's going to take me about three hours to get the last half of it done, and that's before I revise the composition I wrote last week (I have to hand that in too.) Rumor has it the workload for this class will ease up in two or three weeks. I hope so.
If it's going to be 80 and humid out, the least it could do is not look like it's 65 and going to rain any minute.
I suppose I should get some more composition exercises done. Somehow that idea fails to excite me.
Went off to work and finished typing the article I worked on for five hours yesterday. It was a question of typing it or scanning it, and I don't know anywhere there's a scanner I could have used, so I typed it. (Besides which, I have yet to meet an OCR program that knows English, never mind one that knows French. I probably would have spent five hours formatting the damn thing if I had scanned it.) The copy I was working from was 23 pages, double-spaced, in French. I now know about almost every possible way to produce accent marks in Windows XP. On the way to figuring that out, I figured out how to get around the apostrophe and quotation marks problem that drove me to distraction last year.
After I got the article typed and mostly formatted, I went off to the library to look up jet pump parts. Routledge's Technical Dictionary is a wonderful thing. It has two volumes, one of which is English-French, and the other of which is French-English. Between the dictionary and the parallel texts I found last week, I'm in pretty good shape, I think.
What I'm not in good shape with is my composition exercises. I did the exercises we don't have to hand in (all 20-some-odd of them), and then looked at what we do have to hand in. Suffice it to say it's going to take me about three hours to get the last half of it done, and that's before I revise the composition I wrote last week (I have to hand that in too.) Rumor has it the workload for this class will ease up in two or three weeks. I hope so.
If it's going to be 80 and humid out, the least it could do is not look like it's 65 and going to rain any minute.
I suppose I should get some more composition exercises done. Somehow that idea fails to excite me.
