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Apr. 5th, 2005 03:43 pmOK, now I've got it. My glossary is long enough, and all I have to do is populate it (why is it so hard to find an English definition for "glutamatergic", anyway? I did find one, but ye gods...). I've fixed the last couple of terms in the translation that were nagging at me as being not quite right, so now I can turn in the entire second draft of the translation. I started an outline for the analysis, and it's looking like 20 pages easily, since it has to be double-spaced. I haven't even started with the theory yet. (I know, I should be careful about saying I'm in a good spot, because the rug tends to get yanked out from under me when I say that.)
Next project management meeting is tomorrow night, after my meeting with my advisor about the last of the editing (for the moment, anyway). Apparently I'm not the only one who wasn't having any fun at the meeting on Saturday; my French classmate M asked me if I thought it was hell too. I repeat the assertion that project management in the real world can't possibly take this long and be this complicated, dammit. I think this is a definite case of "just because you've taken classes in it doesn't mean you know how to do it", which I heard a lot from IT back in the dot-com era. To a certain extent, they were right, but this project management class is a really nasty example. If it really took us three months to come up with a quite for a localization project this size, there's no way in hell we would get it.
(And no way in hell would we be dissecting it as much as we are, either.) I certainly wouldn't hire myself as a project manager on the strength of this class. Of course, project management in the real world probably isn't as much of a group assignment as this is.
Anyway, it's gorgeous out, again, and I really want to take the rest of the day off and do my annual spring lizard imitation, in which I find the warmest and/or largest sunny spot I can and bask in it. Unfortunately, there's no really good wireless connectivity in my favorite sunny spots, and I have some more computer-related things to do today. I think I'm declaring an end to them at 4:30, done or not, because if I don't get outdoors at least a little today, I'm going to be kicking myself.
I have the feeling I'm going to need a laugh by the end of tomorrow; somebody want to send me something silly sometime tomorrow afternoon?
Next project management meeting is tomorrow night, after my meeting with my advisor about the last of the editing (for the moment, anyway). Apparently I'm not the only one who wasn't having any fun at the meeting on Saturday; my French classmate M asked me if I thought it was hell too. I repeat the assertion that project management in the real world can't possibly take this long and be this complicated, dammit. I think this is a definite case of "just because you've taken classes in it doesn't mean you know how to do it", which I heard a lot from IT back in the dot-com era. To a certain extent, they were right, but this project management class is a really nasty example. If it really took us three months to come up with a quite for a localization project this size, there's no way in hell we would get it.
(And no way in hell would we be dissecting it as much as we are, either.) I certainly wouldn't hire myself as a project manager on the strength of this class. Of course, project management in the real world probably isn't as much of a group assignment as this is.
Anyway, it's gorgeous out, again, and I really want to take the rest of the day off and do my annual spring lizard imitation, in which I find the warmest and/or largest sunny spot I can and bask in it. Unfortunately, there's no really good wireless connectivity in my favorite sunny spots, and I have some more computer-related things to do today. I think I'm declaring an end to them at 4:30, done or not, because if I don't get outdoors at least a little today, I'm going to be kicking myself.
I have the feeling I'm going to need a laugh by the end of tomorrow; somebody want to send me something silly sometime tomorrow afternoon?
