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Yeah, remember how I said that I had had 5 hours of sleep out of the past two days before last night? The culprit was about 30 pages of contract documents from the Norwegian police force, but yesterday 9 am was just the intermediate deadline; the whole project was just half done. The third document is due tomorrow and the fourth one the day after.
So after sleeping basically all day yesterday I drank a lot of tea, curled up with a hot water bottle (not for cramps, but because my feet are chronically cold and while it's definitely ~AUTUMN~ outside [someone should make a raining-on-the-text generator like that sparkly text generator, because that's how AUTUMN would look in Finland], the radiators haven't come on inside yet) and read an entire Heyer novel (Venetia, a new favourite which I had to my delight never read before). And then I slept for another twelve hours. And woke up this morning to the phone ringing for the automated deadline reminder service ("We ah... urrrgently... awate-ing... ur... translayshun...") and scrambled half-awake and full of panic out of bed to turn on the computer and check the deadline.
So, I didn't miss the deadline, but the incompetent fools (nothing new there) have set the staggered deadlines in the instructions as the 1st, 3rd and 4th, but listed the overall translator deadline as the 2nd (ie TODAY, in 20 minutes actually) in the computer, which is obvs. where that charmingly-Dutch-accented automaton gets its informashuns from. While I'm up, though, I might as well do as much of this as possible. Norwegian! Poliiiiiiice! I love the Finnish police and their cute little rompers, but if anyone could be awesomer than them it would have to be the Norwegian ones, because I mean, Norway. Even Iceland couldn't be that funny. And check out the logo:
Look at his little AXE! Even cooler than the Finnish police emblem (which is a knife with the head of a snarling lion for the hilt).
So after sleeping basically all day yesterday I drank a lot of tea, curled up with a hot water bottle (not for cramps, but because my feet are chronically cold and while it's definitely ~AUTUMN~ outside [someone should make a raining-on-the-text generator like that sparkly text generator, because that's how AUTUMN would look in Finland], the radiators haven't come on inside yet) and read an entire Heyer novel (Venetia, a new favourite which I had to my delight never read before). And then I slept for another twelve hours. And woke up this morning to the phone ringing for the automated deadline reminder service ("We ah... urrrgently... awate-ing... ur... translayshun...") and scrambled half-awake and full of panic out of bed to turn on the computer and check the deadline.
So, I didn't miss the deadline, but the incompetent fools (nothing new there) have set the staggered deadlines in the instructions as the 1st, 3rd and 4th, but listed the overall translator deadline as the 2nd (ie TODAY, in 20 minutes actually) in the computer, which is obvs. where that charmingly-Dutch-accented automaton gets its informashuns from. While I'm up, though, I might as well do as much of this as possible. Norwegian! Poliiiiiiice! I love the Finnish police and their cute little rompers, but if anyone could be awesomer than them it would have to be the Norwegian ones, because I mean, Norway. Even Iceland couldn't be that funny. And check out the logo:
Look at his little AXE! Even cooler than the Finnish police emblem (which is a knife with the head of a snarling lion for the hilt).
