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I'm back from running away for the weekend, and now I've got four days' worth of work to catch up with. (I knew that was going to happen.) I really hope this article I'm supposed to have a draft translation of at 4:30 isn't as complicated as it sounds. And I REALLY hope it's a short article, because the assignment managed not to be attached to the message it was supposed to be attached to, so I don't know whether I'm only supposed to translate part of the article.

[EDIT: It is, in fact, short. Unfortunately it's also about research on spinal anesthesia and neuropathic pain, so I had to look up a fair bit of terminology.]

I went swimming on Saturday and my hair still smells like chlorine. Harumpf.

Right. Off I go, into the wild electronic-journal-collection yonder. Gonna be a long day, since it started at 5:45 this morning.

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A family friend who's sort of my surrogate grandfather has had another stroke and is in the hospital. He and his wife were supposed to be going on a cruise in South America tomorrow.

I wish I hadn't heard about this until tomorrow; I would have been able to deal with it better if I had had more distance from coming home from NY and going off to a class I had to prepare for in a hurry.

Damn.