my exciting life, or not

As it turned out, the cookie dough got put off by an hour and a quarter. It took me half an hour to get to the grocery store and back, and then I had to let the butter sit around for half an hour and soften up because I forgot to leave it sitting around when I left for the grocery store. Then it took fifteen minutes to get the cookie dough put together. It was indeed what I wanted, but don't ask me why, because I don't know.

I finally got done jumping through bureaucratic hoops to get proof of my degree for the ATA exam. It turns out that the registrar can't do it this week, but the College of Arts and Sciences can write me a "letter of completion", so I got them to do that.

I've got a whole big long list of rampant materialism I want to engage in when I've got a job again. Most of it is a long list of relatively small stuff, and some of it is a list of rewards I promised myself for various things, and some of it is peer pressure ("well, everybody else I know has one/does this/etc...."). But it's all stuff I haven't been able to do for two years without thinking about it and deciding not to, and I'd like to have income enough to get some of these things without worrying about them.

In aid of income, I believe I'll send out resumes after lunch. Anybody know anybody who wants to hire a French-to-English translator?

interview

From navraze (why can I never remember that tag when I want it?):


1. Do you feel more confident, professionally, as a result of grad school?
I don't really know how to answer that. I know I can do translations well enough to get a degree, but I also know that translating in the real world is a whole different animal. I don't have a week to do a draft and then have a workshop about it any more. Right now, I want somebody to give me the chance to find out if I can hack it in the real world.

2. Where would you like to go on your next vacation?
Somewhere with an ocean I can swim in. I haven't been swimming in way too long. Failing that, Venice, or Strasbourg, or the UK.

3. What do you think will be the hardest thing to adjust to after school?
Having housemates again, if that's how things work out, followed closely by getting up in the morning, if I get a job that requires it. I really truly don't want to live with perfect strangers again; last time I didn't enjoy it at all. The question is, can I afford not to?


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