lotr

we've been watching "return of the king" the past couple of nights just because. it's pretty cool. i haven't watched it in awhile. it's soooooo long, we have to break it up into manageable parts. i have to say that eowen ROCKS!!!

well, i finished the menus, dialogs and string tables for the second part of my localization final, not that that means anything to anyone but me, but it's a lengthy explanation. now i just have to look at whether any icons need to be localized. i'm really not sure if i'm doing any of this right. and it's not like we can ask the prof in person, b/c he's at a conference starting today, and said that he will check his email as often as he can...um, yeah, b/c there's lots of time for that at a conference. so basically i've been asking classmates if i have a question about something...that's really all i can do, since it's up in the air when i'd get a response back from the prof. i guess it's going ok, but i'd like to be more sure about what i'm doing. i also need to go back through the first part and correct the terminology, b/c i wasn't using microsoft's spanish software glossary for that, and now i figured out how to align it, so i have to make sure everything is consistent.
my appointment's about to come here in a few minutes, so i can't write a ton more.

this semester is really flying by, i do have to say. and i'm glad for it! the faster time goes by, the faster i finally graduate. i still haven't heard from the author of the book i'm translating for my case study. i sent her an email through the book publisher last week or the week before, but have not heard anything yet. i don't know how long i should wait. my advisor said the next step if i don't hear anything would be a phone call to the publisher, but i really would rather not do that unless it's a last resort. i LOVE phone calls!! especially in a foreign language, b/c that reminds me of my lovely job last summer calling foreign countries, trying to get them to come a conference in Miami. mmmmmmm, fun. and here, Kerry, you can call Portugal and Brazil, too, b/c hey, they're right next to spanish-speaking countries...you should be able to communicate with them, too, right? :) the idiocy of that just astounded me. anyway, i have another email which may be the author's direct email, but i'm not sure. i would like to try and send something to that email before calling, but i don't know if it's "kosher" to do that.