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Jan. 27th, 2005 12:13 pmSunshine! There's sunshine out there! (The fact that it's 18 degrees out there is immaterial.) Hooray!
Yesterday I got half an hour of actual tutoring out of sitting there for five hours (I stayed until 5:00, which is what it said on the schedule, even though I really only had to stay until 4:00.) At least I did something useful for somebody yesterday. I also got started on the translation for my case study, and came up with a 65-term glossary (French terms only). Since I only need about 45 terms in general, all I have to do now is populate the glossary and start hunting definitions and contexts in both languages. I suspect the glossary is going to get bigger as it goes, and I may get rid of some of the stuff I came up with yesterday, but at least it's a start.
The translation itself isn't that bad, yet. Doing it by hand is a bit of a pain, but by the time I got around to it, my laptop battery needed charging, and the German tutor's laptop was plugged into the only free outlet in the room.
For some strange reason, when I start up the computer, it loads settings for VirtualPC, but only when the application itself isn't actually on the hard drive. When it is on the hard drive, it's got the "Please insert the install CD" problem I was having in the first place. And there was much scratching of head on my part.
Oh well. The sun is out, and I have something like a start on my case study, and life is pretty good. Now if only the linen would show up in the mail...although there's a good side to that too. It doesn't show up on my credit card bill until it ships, so it wasn't on the last bill even though I ordered it during the last billing cycle.
Speaking of credit cards, I've noticed that the bigger I'm expecting the bill to be, the faster the card gets approved when I swipe it through the machine at the grocery store. I'm probably imagining that, but that's what it seems like, and it's completely within the mentality of a credit card company to encourage me to spend a lot of money, preferably money I haven't got, so they can charge me interest until doomsday.
I think I'll go out for a walk or something and absorb sunshine for a while.
Yesterday I got half an hour of actual tutoring out of sitting there for five hours (I stayed until 5:00, which is what it said on the schedule, even though I really only had to stay until 4:00.) At least I did something useful for somebody yesterday. I also got started on the translation for my case study, and came up with a 65-term glossary (French terms only). Since I only need about 45 terms in general, all I have to do now is populate the glossary and start hunting definitions and contexts in both languages. I suspect the glossary is going to get bigger as it goes, and I may get rid of some of the stuff I came up with yesterday, but at least it's a start.
The translation itself isn't that bad, yet. Doing it by hand is a bit of a pain, but by the time I got around to it, my laptop battery needed charging, and the German tutor's laptop was plugged into the only free outlet in the room.
For some strange reason, when I start up the computer, it loads settings for VirtualPC, but only when the application itself isn't actually on the hard drive. When it is on the hard drive, it's got the "Please insert the install CD" problem I was having in the first place. And there was much scratching of head on my part.
Oh well. The sun is out, and I have something like a start on my case study, and life is pretty good. Now if only the linen would show up in the mail...although there's a good side to that too. It doesn't show up on my credit card bill until it ships, so it wasn't on the last bill even though I ordered it during the last billing cycle.
Speaking of credit cards, I've noticed that the bigger I'm expecting the bill to be, the faster the card gets approved when I swipe it through the machine at the grocery store. I'm probably imagining that, but that's what it seems like, and it's completely within the mentality of a credit card company to encourage me to spend a lot of money, preferably money I haven't got, so they can charge me interest until doomsday.
I think I'll go out for a walk or something and absorb sunshine for a while.
