hey all

i have a minute here b/t students (there's a lull for now) so i thought i'd write a little. i have had 2 of my 3 classes so far, with the 3rd one tonight at 7:15pm. essentially it makes for a really long thursday, since i work all day thursday and don't get out from my class until 9:45pm. oh well...i would rather have it like this than have to work all day on monday or wednesday and leave early to go to class at 4:30 to 7pm. that would mean that i'd have to only have a 1/2 hr for lunch that day and i wouldn't be able to spend it with braden. braden turned in a work application for Robinson Memorial Hospital today. they told him a few days ago on the phone that there were several positions available, including evening hours, which would mean that he'd be working while i'm at school, which would be nice. we wouldn't eat dinner together much, but we would have lunch together. all i know is that he was going to turn the application in....don't know specifics yet. i'm waiting with baited breath!!

braden and i have been plenty busy just with trying to get the apartment all set up. there's still a ton to do, but i feel like we're getting somewhere. i finally put all my clothes away (we had to wait b/c maintenance waited until we were back from vacation to finally mess around with our air conditioner, etc, instead of doing it when we weren't there like we asked them to). so, since it's located in the closet, we couldn't put anything on the left-hand side. so yesterday i got sick of clothes on the floor and did mass cleaning, staying up way past my bedtime...but i sure felt better.

now we have to tackle the office and the kitchen, mainly. the office has been the room we've just kind of shoved stuff when there was nowhere else to put it, and the kitchen is haphazard, due to my living with a roommate, and we just put stuff wherever. i'll feel better when there's a place for everything, and especially when we get more counter space.

my classes seem really interesting so far. the Legal Translation one is going to be tough, but way interesting. I hope we don't do sight translation all class period EVERY class period, though, b/c that got old after 5 minutes. sight translation is where you're handed a document that you've never seen before and told to translate it out loud on the spot. and yes, they're full of terms that you've probably not heard of in your native language, let alone Spanish. so i gave it my best shot (we took turns), but essentially it means that i try to figure out which passage he'll call on me to translate and frantically try to translate it before he calls on me. this means that i miss out on some of the discussion b/c i'm working on that, so it's less effective, but i really hate being put on the spot like that. you might say, well why are you interested in interpreting....well, there is a difference, and also, you don't have a roomful of your colleagues staring at you while you do it. :)
anyway, long story short, i hope we do other things in that class. the prof seems way cool (i bought two business dictionaries/glossaries off of him for $15 total), and i remembered him from a seminar he taught at the ATA (American Translators Association) conference in Toronto last year. so i'm pleased that he'll be teaching us, b/c he has a lot of practical experience to share with us.
the software localization class looks fun, and it's the class i've been looking forward to most in the whole program. i want to learn about multimedia and website localization and how i can combine my graphic design/multimedia skills with localization and translation. i hope the class lives up to my expectations.
i didn't get much work done on my case study this summer...not like i wanted to. last semester i said that i wanted to get the majority of it done this summer, but that didn't happen...but, really, folks, i think i had a good excuse!! :) hopefully my advisor will approve the fibromyalgia book i want to do, b/c if not, i'm really going to be upset, since i'm pretty much banking on it, and i'll be out $42.
we lost all of our thank you notes in the flood, so we need to go buy new ones and get started on that. we will get those out as soon as we can. i also need to do a bunch of name change stuff, including here at KSU. we need to get an official copy of our marriage license for some of it.
bye for now!