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Mostly this week I've been busy trying to bang my sources into shape. First lesson is on Tuesday, which is okay, more or less, but the problem is I don't know how to continue - the topic I'm teaching is highly open-ended, and it doesn't end with anything positive (feminism - welcome to my life...). I spect I'll work it out, but the process is taking a long time and lots and lots of reading. Most afternoons I end up spread over two desks, one with me on it and one with a tottering pile of books on it. People ask if I ever leave the building. Well, uh, basically not, I tend to get in between 6.45 and 8, and leave between 6 and 10. Lots of work. But it's nice, I actually like most of the people at Pardes, so it's pleasant to be there.
One thing I was doing was translating a massively long and complex article, where most of the words are written in acronyms - and I managed to turn half of it into actual, real, decently-written AND logically plausible English, which does not usually happen with my translations - they're either literal, and consequently in terribly bad English, or additionally, not sensible either. This was very, very pleasing, even to do half of it.
Last night I was going to get loads of stuff done, but I ended up fixing someone's computer all evening. Does anyone else get this? People who you more or less like, but aren't really close friends, whose computers get fucked up and they ask you to fix them, and it turns out they've just been really stupid and got them filled with trojans, so you fix it but it takes four hours, and then you can't very well ask a fee because they're sort of your friend, but you really feel taken advantage of? What's a solution?
One thing I was doing was translating a massively long and complex article, where most of the words are written in acronyms - and I managed to turn half of it into actual, real, decently-written AND logically plausible English, which does not usually happen with my translations - they're either literal, and consequently in terribly bad English, or additionally, not sensible either. This was very, very pleasing, even to do half of it.
Last night I was going to get loads of stuff done, but I ended up fixing someone's computer all evening. Does anyone else get this? People who you more or less like, but aren't really close friends, whose computers get fucked up and they ask you to fix them, and it turns out they've just been really stupid and got them filled with trojans, so you fix it but it takes four hours, and then you can't very well ask a fee because they're sort of your friend, but you really feel taken advantage of? What's a solution?