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I think my cold is going away. That would be nice of it.
In the "maybe I really do know what I'm doing" category, I got my second translation exercise back last night. It had one minor error, which was only worth half a point. That's actually better than I thought, since I didn't like that translation very much. It was a translation of a recipe, and I didn't like the tone it ended up with. Apparently the professor did, though, so it worked. I also think I did pretty well with my theory exam, which I turned in this morning. I don't think I aced it, but if I don't get a B on it, I'll be shocked. Grades aside, sometimes I wonder if I'm really any good at this. Translation is one of those fields in which you can get a degree, but it doesn't mean anything until you've got a whole lot of experience besides.
I get another Semiotics exam to deal with while my parents are here. If I'm a really good kid and I do it on Friday before they get here, it'll be out of my hair. But since when am I ever a good kid about that stuff? Realistically, I'll be thinking about it all weekend and then I'll sit down on Monday night and do it, so I'll have Tuesday to rework it.
Speaking of work, I got paid, finally. $121 after taxes for sitting still for fourteen and a half hours. I wish it was more than $121. but I really can't complain about how I earned it. They've turned the heat on in the building the art studios are in (which is not the art building), and now that it's on, it stays on regardless of how hot it is out. Yesterday it was so hot in the studio that they cut the class short so nobody would pass out. I thought it was hot in there, and I wasn't wearing anything.
I love my computer, but I wish I had a DVD player independent of it. Maybe next year if I have a little more money, I'll do something about that. There are a couple of other things on the Maybe Next Year list already, like a patio chair and my next embroidery project (Garden Verses by Mirabilia; she looks like a translator to me. I want to use darker linen than that, though. If she were blonde, I'd do it on navy blue linen, but I don't want her hair to disappear.) I can probably ask for the linen itself for Christmas if I can decide what color I want.
I should go make a list of things I want to get done this weekend. That way I might even accomplish some of them.
In the "maybe I really do know what I'm doing" category, I got my second translation exercise back last night. It had one minor error, which was only worth half a point. That's actually better than I thought, since I didn't like that translation very much. It was a translation of a recipe, and I didn't like the tone it ended up with. Apparently the professor did, though, so it worked. I also think I did pretty well with my theory exam, which I turned in this morning. I don't think I aced it, but if I don't get a B on it, I'll be shocked. Grades aside, sometimes I wonder if I'm really any good at this. Translation is one of those fields in which you can get a degree, but it doesn't mean anything until you've got a whole lot of experience besides.
I get another Semiotics exam to deal with while my parents are here. If I'm a really good kid and I do it on Friday before they get here, it'll be out of my hair. But since when am I ever a good kid about that stuff? Realistically, I'll be thinking about it all weekend and then I'll sit down on Monday night and do it, so I'll have Tuesday to rework it.
Speaking of work, I got paid, finally. $121 after taxes for sitting still for fourteen and a half hours. I wish it was more than $121. but I really can't complain about how I earned it. They've turned the heat on in the building the art studios are in (which is not the art building), and now that it's on, it stays on regardless of how hot it is out. Yesterday it was so hot in the studio that they cut the class short so nobody would pass out. I thought it was hot in there, and I wasn't wearing anything.
I love my computer, but I wish I had a DVD player independent of it. Maybe next year if I have a little more money, I'll do something about that. There are a couple of other things on the Maybe Next Year list already, like a patio chair and my next embroidery project (Garden Verses by Mirabilia; she looks like a translator to me. I want to use darker linen than that, though. If she were blonde, I'd do it on navy blue linen, but I don't want her hair to disappear.) I can probably ask for the linen itself for Christmas if I can decide what color I want.
I should go make a list of things I want to get done this weekend. That way I might even accomplish some of them.