A Boring Post About Work and Proposed Translation Projects
Since the beginning of the month, work has been improving. We have schools to connect people with now, so it's not impossible to meet the sales quota, like it was at the end of June. Of course, a week or two from now all of the schools will have met their quota for the month and it will be the same old story. However, I nearly made a sales record on Monday with fourteen different sales (the record is sixteen, I've been told), so hopefully I have vindicated myself from the production write-up I received the week prior. I really wish I had a real job.
I've been translating the essays we read back in senior year, since we never had to turn in our own work then. We just went around the room sentence by sentence, with the exception of classical class and the Hojoki. I desperately miss those classes, which is why I must start graduate school in 2010. The requirements for the translation program at UIUC still haven't been posted, and if they're not up by September, I'm e-mailing the director again. I also think I might just apply to the Japanese MA program as a back-up, in which case I can still do a translation certificate.
Ideally, I'll be going to school in the fall of 2010, and I'm hoping to study abroad the summer before to rebuild my fluency. I'm definitely applying to the HIF program in Hakodate. Any other recommendations for summer programs at the intermediate/advanced level that have homestays?
I found the first volume of Candy Candy for $20 on Ebay...but the shipping is another $18. I'm trying to determine if it's worth it, or if I should just wait until I have $200 for the whole set of the original edition? I like the cover art on the newer edition better, but it might be hard to find each volume. I'm also debating if I should get involved with the Earl and Fairy light novel series. I really like the concept, but so far it's fifteen volumes long, and I'm not sure how complex the writing might be. Has anyone read them?
My goal right now is to finish these old essays I'm working on, and then move on to other projects. Such projects will include the aforementioned Candy Candy, "Run, Melos!," "Gauche the Cellist," and possibly Kairo-ko, depending on how hard it is. I really want to read it, but I think Soseki might be a bit dense. I'm hoping that once I do these projects for myself, I might be able to find some freelance work to save myself even a little from my dreadful job.
If anyone would actually like to do something with me after I've proven to be such an uninteresting individual, please let me know. I am poor, so it would have to be something that does not involve food or other expenses, but I think it would be nice to do something in the summer other than work.
I've been translating the essays we read back in senior year, since we never had to turn in our own work then. We just went around the room sentence by sentence, with the exception of classical class and the Hojoki. I desperately miss those classes, which is why I must start graduate school in 2010. The requirements for the translation program at UIUC still haven't been posted, and if they're not up by September, I'm e-mailing the director again. I also think I might just apply to the Japanese MA program as a back-up, in which case I can still do a translation certificate.
Ideally, I'll be going to school in the fall of 2010, and I'm hoping to study abroad the summer before to rebuild my fluency. I'm definitely applying to the HIF program in Hakodate. Any other recommendations for summer programs at the intermediate/advanced level that have homestays?
I found the first volume of Candy Candy for $20 on Ebay...but the shipping is another $18. I'm trying to determine if it's worth it, or if I should just wait until I have $200 for the whole set of the original edition? I like the cover art on the newer edition better, but it might be hard to find each volume. I'm also debating if I should get involved with the Earl and Fairy light novel series. I really like the concept, but so far it's fifteen volumes long, and I'm not sure how complex the writing might be. Has anyone read them?
My goal right now is to finish these old essays I'm working on, and then move on to other projects. Such projects will include the aforementioned Candy Candy, "Run, Melos!," "Gauche the Cellist," and possibly Kairo-ko, depending on how hard it is. I really want to read it, but I think Soseki might be a bit dense. I'm hoping that once I do these projects for myself, I might be able to find some freelance work to save myself even a little from my dreadful job.
If anyone would actually like to do something with me after I've proven to be such an uninteresting individual, please let me know. I am poor, so it would have to be something that does not involve food or other expenses, but I think it would be nice to do something in the summer other than work.