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akujunkanHoly They're Taking Me Seriously Now, Batman!
Today I was sitting at my desk, alternately working on Japanese and Korean vocab cards (ye old proficiency test looms ever closer on the horizon), and reading Shanghai Baby, when el Supervisor shows up with a ream of papers in her hands. This in itself is nothing unusual. But they were for me! One of my kids is in an English speech contest. I was handed three copies of her speech: one in the original Japanese, one her mother's translation of the above into English, and one the mother's abridgement of the first.
I've just spent the past two hours, happy as a clam, reading the Japanese speech, then the English, and then retranslating it into English. (The mother's translation was really good in that it lacked any laughable Engrish, but it still sounded like Japanese. My translation aims for a formal speech style in natural-sounding English.) Now I'm waiting for el Sup to show back up so she can tell me it's too difficult, and then I can kill another two hours by rewriting it again.
It would help if the sole office printer worked.
In other news, Taifuu!
Or 'typhoon,' for you English-only types. We had one blow through here early yesterday morning. As I've mentioned before, I live in one of thelamest safest prefectures as far as natural disasters are concerned. We don't get earthquakes, our mountains are small enough that we don't have avalanches in winter, it doesn't flood, and to us, typhoons are just extra-cloudy days where it mizzles every now and then.
This typhoon actually behaved more like a typhoon, in that we got proper rainfall and winds. Oh my gods the winds were awesome! I woke up in the middle of the night, and my apartment building was swaying. Back and forth. In the wind from this typhoon. This is a six-storey tall, brick (I think) building. And the winds were rocking it back and forth like a cradle.
I was still tired enough from the Korean trip that I found this soothing instead of frightening, so I turned off my AC, opened the windows, and fell asleep again to the rocking and the sound of rainfall. Naisu!
Some of my coworkers just commented that I've been sitting in front of the monitor for so long that my brain will probably melt soon. They may be correct. On the bright side, I just learned the word for 'electromagnetic wave' in Japanese. And so, on that note, I depart.
That will be all.
Today I was sitting at my desk, alternately working on Japanese and Korean vocab cards (ye old proficiency test looms ever closer on the horizon), and reading Shanghai Baby, when el Supervisor shows up with a ream of papers in her hands. This in itself is nothing unusual. But they were for me! One of my kids is in an English speech contest. I was handed three copies of her speech: one in the original Japanese, one her mother's translation of the above into English, and one the mother's abridgement of the first.
I've just spent the past two hours, happy as a clam, reading the Japanese speech, then the English, and then retranslating it into English. (The mother's translation was really good in that it lacked any laughable Engrish, but it still sounded like Japanese. My translation aims for a formal speech style in natural-sounding English.) Now I'm waiting for el Sup to show back up so she can tell me it's too difficult, and then I can kill another two hours by rewriting it again.
It would help if the sole office printer worked.
In other news, Taifuu!
Or 'typhoon,' for you English-only types. We had one blow through here early yesterday morning. As I've mentioned before, I live in one of the
This typhoon actually behaved more like a typhoon, in that we got proper rainfall and winds. Oh my gods the winds were awesome! I woke up in the middle of the night, and my apartment building was swaying. Back and forth. In the wind from this typhoon. This is a six-storey tall, brick (I think) building. And the winds were rocking it back and forth like a cradle.
I was still tired enough from the Korean trip that I found this soothing instead of frightening, so I turned off my AC, opened the windows, and fell asleep again to the rocking and the sound of rainfall. Naisu!
Some of my coworkers just commented that I've been sitting in front of the monitor for so long that my brain will probably melt soon. They may be correct. On the bright side, I just learned the word for 'electromagnetic wave' in Japanese. And so, on that note, I depart.
That will be all.