Thursday

[dchenes]

The universe is back in balance again.

On the positive side: this morning I got an email from a translation agency in France, wanting my CV and rates. They were looking through the ATA listings for FR>EN medical translators, and found me. So I, of course, fired them off a reply. We shall see...even if I don't get any work from them, at least somebody was interested enough to ask. Since I have yet to make any money as a translator, I don't really have much of anything to lose.

On the negative side: I don't see any particular reason why my scanner should have died between the time I shut down this computer last night and the time I turned it on this morning. I thought it might have been the power supply, but it isn't. It's plain old completely dead. Harumpf.

A list:

Haircut 11:30 Sat.
Lady Grace
Farmer's market
Lunch for next week
Laundry

Comments

[stemware.livejournal.com]

If somebody offered you a job in France, would you take it?

[dchenes.livejournal.com]

If it was a translation job for a French company, yes. If I had to move to France, no. I can't afford to move across the city, never mind across the Atlantic.

[stemware.livejournal.com]

Well, what if they reimbursed you for all costs?

[dchenes.livejournal.com]

Such a thing doesn't exist in the translation industry, unless maybe you've been doing it for umpteen decades and the client REALLY likes you.

[stemware.livejournal.com]

You're hard with hypotheticals :-)

Hypothetical situation -

Suppose you were offered a job in France and it were financially feasible, would you accept?

[dchenes.livejournal.com]

Maybe. I do like living in this country, for the most part. (French politics are even worse than American politics.)

[whuffle.livejournal.com]

Harupmh indeed. I'm trying to make 2 versions of a graphics program play nice with each other and the giant printer, wanna trade? (BTW, I have new icons, see! This is one and I also now have a VW rabbit icon. I want a little animated running VW rabbit icon too!)

[mamajoan.livejournal.com]

I have an old scanner you could have, if you like. I'm pretty sure it works.

[dchenes.livejournal.com]

The scanner at work is the one that's broken; I've never had one at home. (If you really want to get rid of it, I'll take yours for home, though.)