The main character is a translator, and she's being paid "a small fortune" to translate an ad copy for an exclusive perfume brand.

As the book I'm reading is a translation from French, I can only wonder what the Norwegian translator thought as she worked on that particular scene. :p :p

These are my automated job searches (on one site):


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Went to the dentist today, and it turns out I had NO CAVITIES. That hasn't happened in - I kid you not - almost 15 years!!

In other news, I genuinely had a row with a chip and pin machine yesterday. At IKEA.

I am now listed as "manager" in the paper edition of Universitas.

I wrote this Sherlock story for dark_festAnd as if that wasn't enough, this ( Read more... )

Lately, I've had the variations on the following conversation with several people ( Read more... )

Turns out I'll have to leave one day later for my trip to London/Brighton in March. I didn't realize that was volunteering for the choir flea market that Thursday. And yes, I'm actually in charge of the market, and I should have known, but I've had a lot on my mind lately, and somehow I managed to get my wires crossed on that one ( Read more... )

So, for the better part of this week, I've been arguing with a French bank that has thrown all kinds of crazy obstacles in the way of one of our poor freelancers, who was trying to transfer money to us (for rather complicated reasons). Now, the reason why she had to send money to us might be complicated, but the actual process should really not be ( Read more... )

Imagine a power outage at work - just for a few seconds. Imagine everything comes back up except your server, which contains all the files you've been working on. Ever.

Imagine that you are currently the only employee in the office.

Imagine you have no IT support.

Imagine that you don't even know the location of the server ( Read more... )

Still working on my layout; I'm getting closer to something I think I might enjoy. Still going back and forth a bit though, but I can't be sat doing this all day; got test translations to do. :p

I did really well on my review at work (I was expecting to do badly), so cobos suggested I give myself a title. Fair enough. From now on, you may call me

SUNFLASH!

There's an office team-building... thing... tomorrow. I'm not sure what, exactly, because it's a secret. Anyway, they said people could dress up, but they're also implying that there will be some sort of physical activity involved, as we're told not to wear high-heeled shoes, and bring an extra shirt/sweater. As I'm hoping to have time to go to badbrunette's ( Read more... )