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hurdles, experiments and stuff
It seems I'm not particularly good at source-text analysis, which is causing me to write a whole lot of two-sentence paragraphs with "MORE HERE" at the ends for the sake of having place-holders. However, I've gone on like that for four pages now, and I'm not even dealing with the second article yet. Once I get into analyzing the actual translation process, I can go on ad nauseam. Length, for once, is not going to be a problem with this thing.
I knew it was time to go to bed last night (this morning) when I spent about five minutes trying to find a legitimate way to work that song about "people are people, so why should it be..." into the cross-cultural adaptation section. The point I was really trying to make is that the human body works basically the same way, regardless of what language it speaks, so there isn't a whole lot of cultural difference to deal with when you're talking about diagnosis and treatment of tremors.
I also made cookies yesterday, since we ran out of cookies for the coffee hour last week. I tried a recipe for sour cream cookies, which I thought would come out something like plain old ordinary chocolate chip cookies, and didn't. They hardly spread out at all, but they did rise a bit, so they look rather odd. They taste all right, though, and I put white-and-regular-chocolate-swirl chips in them, so they're interesting. The recipe said it made three dozen, but I think what I ended up with is more like four dozen, and I don't know what I'm going to do with them if nobody at the coffee hour eats any. They're all right, but they're not something I want to have four dozen of in the house. Maybe I'll see if anybody wants to leave them in the GAs' office.
We're supposed to be doing our sales presentation for project management tonight. I suppose I had better type out what I'm supposed to say, so I can actually read it, and then read over it ten or twelve times. My handwriting has gotten worse since I've been here (gee, I wonder why?).
I wonder if the fact that it's 20 degrees cooler today than it was yesterday will mean the lab is less like a sauna? I doubt it, because trying to get outdoor air in there is generally like trying to teach a pig to sing. Today's lab project is to see if the new version of MultiTerm will export to RTF. The old version did, apparently, and I have no idea how I'm going to get my glossary into printable form if it doesn't. Oh, and populate the last six terms, so I can stick a fork in the terminology research.
I knew it was time to go to bed last night (this morning) when I spent about five minutes trying to find a legitimate way to work that song about "people are people, so why should it be..." into the cross-cultural adaptation section. The point I was really trying to make is that the human body works basically the same way, regardless of what language it speaks, so there isn't a whole lot of cultural difference to deal with when you're talking about diagnosis and treatment of tremors.
I also made cookies yesterday, since we ran out of cookies for the coffee hour last week. I tried a recipe for sour cream cookies, which I thought would come out something like plain old ordinary chocolate chip cookies, and didn't. They hardly spread out at all, but they did rise a bit, so they look rather odd. They taste all right, though, and I put white-and-regular-chocolate-swirl chips in them, so they're interesting. The recipe said it made three dozen, but I think what I ended up with is more like four dozen, and I don't know what I'm going to do with them if nobody at the coffee hour eats any. They're all right, but they're not something I want to have four dozen of in the house. Maybe I'll see if anybody wants to leave them in the GAs' office.
We're supposed to be doing our sales presentation for project management tonight. I suppose I had better type out what I'm supposed to say, so I can actually read it, and then read over it ten or twelve times. My handwriting has gotten worse since I've been here (gee, I wonder why?).
I wonder if the fact that it's 20 degrees cooler today than it was yesterday will mean the lab is less like a sauna? I doubt it, because trying to get outdoor air in there is generally like trying to teach a pig to sing. Today's lab project is to see if the new version of MultiTerm will export to RTF. The old version did, apparently, and I have no idea how I'm going to get my glossary into printable form if it doesn't. Oh, and populate the last six terms, so I can stick a fork in the terminology research.