I couldn't ask for another.

[discountsatori]

The translation department director's arguably mute son, our company's IT director, is apparently the only one who can properly set up my dual-monitor workstation, and he's in Germany for six weeks at theater camp (mime camp?). Through a completely inexplicable turn of events, I was offered a project manager position on a one-year contract we have

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[starlakitty]

laurie, you have the best descriptions of people and moments that would otherwise slip past you. wonderful.

also, congratulations on the offer! that i wonderful news. =)

oh, and the story of the Pool People totally bought a smile to my face!

[discountsatori]

Thanks much!

Sometimes the Pool People make me smile, but sometimes, they play really loud music at the pool until 4 in the morning. Blargh.

[crystalina]

what the person above me said!!

[discountsatori]

Ack! Not that I've had too many instances to use Ralph Lauren's name, but to think that I've been pronouncing it wrong for so long is kinda embarrassing.

(P.S. Congrads on your car! I guarantee it will run just about forever.)

[newscane]

That job sounds like it will definitely give you some good experiences. In addition to all of the language stuff, some good management experience. And working with InDesign sounds interesting. Is it essentially a highly-evolved version of Pagemaker, or something far more souped-up?

[peripeteia]

indesign is adobe's less expensive, possibly more user-friendly answer to ye olde design standby quarkxpress. both programs probably qualify as souped-up, but i suppose that depends on what you're trying to accomplish.

congratulations on the publishing job, laurie! it sounds wonderful.

[newscane]

I used an ancient version of Pagemaker for a little while, about 7 years ago. Heh. I was using it on a Win95 system, I think it may have been designed for Win 3.1. And at the time, it was still Aldus Pagemaker. That's how long it's been since I really used one of those programs...

[sanba38]

Years ago, on our college choir tour, a couple of us stayed with a couple in Marietta. They never came to actually hear us perform, so we never got the chance to see them completely change their attitudes toward us.

But one evening the husband told us, "There's a little TV y'all can take up to your room."

We said, "That's OK, we brought things to read."

The husband looked at us as if we were aliens who had just come through the window. The wife said, "See, Honey, other people like to read for fun!" To us, she said, "I like to read Danielle Steel!"

[discountsatori]

When I travel, it doesn't even occur to me to watch TV, much less cart one up to a room I'm staying in. Man. The sad thing is, people like that couple are becoming so typical.

They remind me of one of my roommates in Japan. One day, she very loudly decided that she was going to read a book -- a hobby she regarded as being rather cute and quaint. Of course, to her, "book" translated only to The Da Vinci Code, and nothing else. My other roommate and I had tons of books between us, but our new reader looked through our shelves and said, "Oh. You guys don't really have anything...."

[sanba38]

Aiya! She obviously had too many English speakers in her life.

When I was living in a small town in Taiwan, I read the long autobiographies of both Nelson Mandela and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. They were both fascinating, but I never would have had the patience for them back in Nashville where all by Native-speaking friends were.

Then, when I was in grad school, I had to read books written in the 19th century because I could put them down. If I read something written in the 20th century, I'd be up until 4!

[davidfrazer]

Congratulations on the job offer. Or, as your musically-inclined overlord would say, Félicitations!

[discountsatori]

Thanks! I mean, merci! (And there you have 10% of my French.)

[sanba38]

I have to laugh at your icon because I live on an island in Hawaii with 7000 people and no traffic lights!