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bktheirregularSo, I'm reading that the infrastructure of LiveJournal is gonna implode or something. Which is rather distressing, since about ninety percent of the communication I have with people on the west side of the Atlantic these days would vaporize. This says something pretty awful about me, though I'm trying not to think about it.
Instead, I'm doing things like trying to figure out how to properly use the word "indemnify". My first contract to actually draft, and it's on a topic I never covered in law school. Ah, well. Best I can do is the best I can do, and the last task I did (a translation which relied on Babelfish waaaay more than I like to admit to myself (though I doublechecked just about everything myself)) was, according to the person I did it for, pretty good. Which isn't to say that my confidence in my abilities is up there yet, so I definitely want to have my work checked before anyone else signs off on it. Big-shot corporate type depending on my work to protect his butt against lawsuits? Heck, I'd worry if it was just me depending on my contract-writing ability.
Apartment front: my washing machine broke somewhere in its timer. Last week, I threw in a load of clothes one night, turned the thing on to do its thing, and when I woke up in the morning, it was still sloshing away. Repairman's coming Wednesday. Not getting my hopes up. On the bright side, tho', either the weather's getting better, or my trick of plunking a half-liter bottle of ice in front of my fan (let the ice absorb the heat from the atmosphere as it melts) is working. Either way, a plus.
Here for a little while, anyway. No word yet on the work permit; the lady at the office who's in charge of handling those things is perplexed and frustrated by it. As has been mentioned in this space before, I'm told that the easy option is for me to take dual citizenship.
(Bright side to that is that since my paperwork's all apostille'd and translated at this point, citizenship can be conferred upon me automatically. No oath to be sworn, which is a plus, considering there's some parts of the Greek constitution I can't in all honesty pledge fealty to.)
More later, as it develops, as they say.
Instead, I'm doing things like trying to figure out how to properly use the word "indemnify". My first contract to actually draft, and it's on a topic I never covered in law school. Ah, well. Best I can do is the best I can do, and the last task I did (a translation which relied on Babelfish waaaay more than I like to admit to myself (though I doublechecked just about everything myself)) was, according to the person I did it for, pretty good. Which isn't to say that my confidence in my abilities is up there yet, so I definitely want to have my work checked before anyone else signs off on it. Big-shot corporate type depending on my work to protect his butt against lawsuits? Heck, I'd worry if it was just me depending on my contract-writing ability.
Apartment front: my washing machine broke somewhere in its timer. Last week, I threw in a load of clothes one night, turned the thing on to do its thing, and when I woke up in the morning, it was still sloshing away. Repairman's coming Wednesday. Not getting my hopes up. On the bright side, tho', either the weather's getting better, or my trick of plunking a half-liter bottle of ice in front of my fan (let the ice absorb the heat from the atmosphere as it melts) is working. Either way, a plus.
Here for a little while, anyway. No word yet on the work permit; the lady at the office who's in charge of handling those things is perplexed and frustrated by it. As has been mentioned in this space before, I'm told that the easy option is for me to take dual citizenship.
(Bright side to that is that since my paperwork's all apostille'd and translated at this point, citizenship can be conferred upon me automatically. No oath to be sworn, which is a plus, considering there's some parts of the Greek constitution I can't in all honesty pledge fealty to.)
More later, as it develops, as they say.
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Date: 2007-08-06 06:35 pm (UTC)