Things have definitely got better since Thursday:

• Just whacked through the first draft of my next translation in about half an hour flat. BOO-YAAH! It'll need work etc. tomorrow, but first drafts are good things.
• I spent some of my hard-earned Earthling Dollar at Gudrun Sjöden. It's only sale stuff, but eek! it was quite scary! Hopefully, it'll ( Read more... )

"You may be stressing about the work you see for yourself in the coming weeks. You might feel extra pressure as your two key planets, Mars and Pluto, engage in an anxious aspect today. The message from these tough planets now is "no pain, no gain." It's like working out; the more you put into it, the more you get out of it. Just remember not to ( Read more... )

1. I've taken on a translation, my first since the summer. It's big, which means I'll earn good money off it, but also, that makes it stressful. My deadline is Friday. All hands on deck etc etc you know the drill by now ( Read more... )

See that last edit? You know I said about how I was going to do lots of stuff when I got back? Well, I pretty much failed there... I didn't make it to anything on the Saturday, although I did go along to Dominoes2009, and had an ace time! In teams of around 7, loads of volunteers set up breezeblocks in domino formation from the North side of the ( Read more... )

So aside from looking for a book, and trying out an Internet Fast, what have I been up to this month? Let's load up GCal, and find out ( Read more... )

Almost all of them, anyway ( Read more... )

... and boy, everybody seems to be happy about that! I don't think I've ever seen so many LJ posts about how crap the past year has been, and how people hope it will all go better next year - this trend has been evident for at least the past month, but obv today is garnering more posts on the topic than previously. Well, I'm all for 2009 being a ( Read more... )

First draft of first chunk is now done. Proof tomorrow, apply strange formatting, go. Wait for next instalment.

Today has been productive. Also, I <3 WordFast, it really is just as good as I was told it would be.

Oooh, also also, caught Mark Gatiss' The Crooked House, quite good! Nice to see more by him... though ofc it's not a patch on Lucifer ( Read more... )

After several delays, I now have the parts of the translation I'm supposed to do (there are three of us working on it as it's a large doc). I haven't, as I'd originally planned, done anything on Friday, Saturday or Sunday - at best, I could have done some prelim reading, but it was unlikely to stick - so now I must buckle down. I'm fairly confident ( Read more... )

I've just received confirmation of the year-end translation... it amounts to approx 1700 lines between this Friday and the 29th. As I'll be busy on the 25th (celebrating mid-winter at hazyjayne's with Col and Benjy) and the 28th (visiting Col's parents in the cottage they're renting in the Cotswolds), I'm left with 8 1/2 working days inc. weekends to get ( Read more... )