![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Entry tags:
Quick note
Still alive, yeah... barely. Survived the drug prevention thingy and the parent-teacher evening. Go me!
Warning: boring stuff and whining behind the tag! Read it to your own risk!
Slave labour is going slowly. It's an official declaration of the all-European union of the food industry about worker interests' protection. Actually interesting, but have you ever tried to translate an official declaration from German into any other language? My advice is: don't. You think I tend to write run-in sentences in Tolkienfic? I'm nothing compared to official declarations written in German. I'm feeling a close kinship with poor Sysiphus.
Tomorrow is our annual school trip. My class is upset because I won't go with them to the other end of the country. Well, bad luck! This is one of the few things I actually can decide on my own, and I decided we'll go to Buda Castle and basta!
Slave labour should be done by tomorrow night. There are 12 pages of that horrid stuff, and they gave it me yesterday. No way I'm gonna manage to do that, and I told them so. I'm still halfways on page 2! *sighs*
Must think of the money they're gonna pay me for it. Must think of the money... must think of the money...
On a brighter note, I've finished A Wizard of Earthsea today and started The Tombs of Atuan. The patron saints of roads and busses may praised.
I enjoy reading them in original immensely, although the Hungarian translation was a very good one. It was done 15-20 years ago, when our translators still knew their jobs. It's an interesting experience to read the same thing in a foreign language. I remember the books scared the living shit out of me back then. I was so afraid I slept with my bedtable lamp on for days. The foreign language, even though it is the original, gives a certain... distance to it. That, and the fact that I knew the books already, I guess.
All right, back to slave labour now.
Warning: boring stuff and whining behind the tag! Read it to your own risk!
Slave labour is going slowly. It's an official declaration of the all-European union of the food industry about worker interests' protection. Actually interesting, but have you ever tried to translate an official declaration from German into any other language? My advice is: don't. You think I tend to write run-in sentences in Tolkienfic? I'm nothing compared to official declarations written in German. I'm feeling a close kinship with poor Sysiphus.
Tomorrow is our annual school trip. My class is upset because I won't go with them to the other end of the country. Well, bad luck! This is one of the few things I actually can decide on my own, and I decided we'll go to Buda Castle and basta!
Slave labour should be done by tomorrow night. There are 12 pages of that horrid stuff, and they gave it me yesterday. No way I'm gonna manage to do that, and I told them so. I'm still halfways on page 2! *sighs*
Must think of the money they're gonna pay me for it. Must think of the money... must think of the money...
On a brighter note, I've finished A Wizard of Earthsea today and started The Tombs of Atuan. The patron saints of roads and busses may praised.
I enjoy reading them in original immensely, although the Hungarian translation was a very good one. It was done 15-20 years ago, when our translators still knew their jobs. It's an interesting experience to read the same thing in a foreign language. I remember the books scared the living shit out of me back then. I was so afraid I slept with my bedtable lamp on for days. The foreign language, even though it is the original, gives a certain... distance to it. That, and the fact that I knew the books already, I guess.
All right, back to slave labour now.
no subject
I think it's knowing the book - FOTR scared me when I first read it. The rest of LOTR wasn't nearly as frightening - even Shelob wasn't quite as bad. I think it was the pacing of the first part combined with the archetypical dark, lurking shadow of evil (the Ringwraiths) that was so creepy. And then there was the long journey in the dark through Moria, where all of the worst monsters we imagined lurking in the night really are lurking about.
no subject
no subject
Yup, they scared me, too. Let's face it, I'm a wimp. When we were kids, Mom wouldn't let us watch 'The Wizard of Oz' for years because it scared us so much. I went through the teenage sleepover party/horror movie fest stage and slept with my light on for two years. Now, I just plain won't watch anything scary - even 'Pirates of the Carribean' was a bit too creepy for me (though I did enjoy it).