Practical Concerns

[cimorene]

+ New computer bits will shortly enable translation! Fast translation!

- New computer bits have put a strain on the credit card to the tune of €1000.

+ Translations of the past month will be payed very soon - once it's August, hopefully nearly immediately - totalling ≈€1700 (Wax) and ≈€83 (me). Enough to pay it off!

- Wax has been in excruciating agony and barely slept 4 out of the last 48 hours because of said agony - a bacterial infection in an old root canal that's going to have to be redone. She's got a huge swelling on her jaw.

+ She can has emergency dental care today. And antibiotics.

- She had to max out the credit card to do it.

- The dentist only gave her 600mg FUCKING IBUPROFEN for her excruciating pain. The ibuprofen doesn't work; it gives partial relief, cutting the pain down to merely "agonising", for a couple of hours, then wears off.

- The dentist wouldn't even give her sick leave from work.

- She probably won't be able to get more than a few more hours' sleep before she has to leave for said work.

+ At least we'll still have enough money to pay off the credit card in a few days.

- But then she'll still have to have the root canal redone.

+The next paycheck should cover that.

- We still don't know if we're going to be moving soon. Which would affect the paycheck question, although at this current rate of molasses, not the next one.

+Wax can quit Nokia, regardless!

- The new prescription glasses she had to order while still on the Nokia insurance will have to be pushed back from tomorrow to Monday, which is a few more days in which she can't move closer to quitting and a few more days tortured in the Nokia dungeons of drudgery.

+Good news! A friend tentatively planning to move to Finland, somewhere in this general area, in the next year or so!

- Right when we're planning to move away from this general area.

+ She brought us strawberry Pop-Tarts, though!

- Which Wax can't eat.

:??? *morosely munches strawberry Pop-Tarts despite impending Stomachache of Worry*

Comments

[hollsh.livejournal.com]

Fuck, that's a lot on your plate at once, hun, I'm sorry.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

You help just by being there. ♥

[dreamnnightmare.livejournal.com]

yay on the translations; boo on the toothache and non-empathetic dentist! Glad the translations will be faster, too.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know! I could make another hundred or two next month on proofreading alone if this volume keeps up as the summer ends. As for the dentist, he did a bit more surgery and sent her home with codeine this time, so she's out for the count, thank God. I had to take a Xanax to still my anxiety over her... then I had to drink two cups of black tea and café au lait to wake up for a rush proofreading job. @_@ It's all good though.

[dreamnnightmare.livejournal.com]

What language do you proofread in ... English?

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Yes, proofing other people's translations. They put a native speaker as proofreader, ideally, on each job translated through the agency.

[dreamnnightmare.livejournal.com]

that is sensible way to do it. It sounds like a job you are well prepared for. I hope you start getting a lot more work. It sounds like it's already a significant contribution to the family income. When you aren't making a lot, any more helps a great deal. But if you could quadruple the amount you're making that way it would really be a substantial contribution.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Hahhahah no, that's highly unlikely. Like I've said, the demand for translating into English from Swedish/Norwegian isn't very big.

[vass]

Poor Wax. Root canal is the worst.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Thank Enya I don't know that personally.