puff, pant, gasp, wheeze...
Feb. 24th, 2004 07:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dchenesYe GODS am I busy!
I spent three hours this morning and afternoon messing around with microfilm. I hadn't touched microfilm since sixth grade, and I forgot how much of a pain in the neck it is. Actually, it's a pain in the shoulders, because the machine I was using had no rewinding mechanism and most of the articles I was looking for were more than halfway through the reel. So, 20-odd reels later, I had sore shoulders, a list of references, and a class to run off to.
So I ran off to class and sat there trying to keep my brain where it belonged, because I wanted to be doing about three or four other things instead, all of them related to academia and none of them related to the class I was in. Having gotten through that, I discovered that I have to spend most of tomorrow in the computer lab when I'm not in class, due to spending last week being unable to open and/or transfer a file.
Therefore, before 3:15 tomorrow, I have to work on two translations, sort out all the microfilm research I did this afternoon, figure out the file transfer problem (but I think I've got that licked, finally), update the transferred file, do the reading for tomorrow's theory session, buy groceries and not go utterly insane.
However, yesterday I got all of my French Theater presentation questions answered, which is good. Presentation to involve only the play, not the author, and paper to involve translation, not literary analysis. Both of these are good things.
All right, HUNGRY, dammit. Microfilm is a bad substitute for lunch.
I spent three hours this morning and afternoon messing around with microfilm. I hadn't touched microfilm since sixth grade, and I forgot how much of a pain in the neck it is. Actually, it's a pain in the shoulders, because the machine I was using had no rewinding mechanism and most of the articles I was looking for were more than halfway through the reel. So, 20-odd reels later, I had sore shoulders, a list of references, and a class to run off to.
So I ran off to class and sat there trying to keep my brain where it belonged, because I wanted to be doing about three or four other things instead, all of them related to academia and none of them related to the class I was in. Having gotten through that, I discovered that I have to spend most of tomorrow in the computer lab when I'm not in class, due to spending last week being unable to open and/or transfer a file.
Therefore, before 3:15 tomorrow, I have to work on two translations, sort out all the microfilm research I did this afternoon, figure out the file transfer problem (but I think I've got that licked, finally), update the transferred file, do the reading for tomorrow's theory session, buy groceries and not go utterly insane.
However, yesterday I got all of my French Theater presentation questions answered, which is good. Presentation to involve only the play, not the author, and paper to involve translation, not literary analysis. Both of these are good things.
All right, HUNGRY, dammit. Microfilm is a bad substitute for lunch.
