That it's been so long since I've posted. The combination of Lisa being here (she is much, much more fun to hang out with than my computer is), job-searching, and this weekend's trip to Angouleme have pretty much strangled the blog for a good while now.
Highlights? Tristram has had a word and sign explosion in the last week; he picks up at least a new word a day now, and is constantly asking us what things are. He now regularly makes the signs for dog, bird (well, duck), frog, hat, and pig, and moos ferociously when he sees a picture of a cow. He likes to go behind the curtains so that we all applaud when he comes out for a curtain call. Also, he has learned how to both eat and poop while dangling by his ankles.
Lisa is teaching us to knit. I am making this skirt in a darker red, and Jonathan is making this sweater. He is still practicing, and I have started the drawstring for the skirt, since I can mess up on that without causing disaster for the whole project.
The comics festival was great, and I could do quite a week of blogs on that alone. They would be summarized thusly: 1) Angouleme is a lovely town; it's like Santa Cruz with 16th-century and older ramparts and towers. 2) Sterling should come as an exhibitor next year and hire Jonathan to be his in-booth translator. 3) French day-cares are amazingly great (1.5 kids per college-trained child care specialist great), and if American ones were as good and as free I would have Tristram in one in a trice. 4) One's French gets a lot better a lot faster when one stays in French speaker's home. 5) Tristram really, really loves dogs and cats, and now knows the difference between them. 6) Tristram is for the most part an amazingly good traveler, but sometimes not at all.
And today? Well, you know that job search I've been working on every day, and for which I have neglected this blog and my contact with most of you? Turns out monster.com needs to fire some people. Oh sure, they'll tell you that you've uploaded a resume, and they'll display it when you first load it, and they'll save a file for it that they let you attach to applications, and they'll email you a confirmation that they've got your resume--but when you go to update at and open the window where you should see it? Nuthin'. Nothing at all. I sent an ungodly number of blank resumes out, and now I have to send apologetic follow-ups explaining that there were technical difficulties and re-attaching the resume. Good thing I decided to update it today to reflect the new translations I've been doing. When they say you can cut-and-paste or upload it, they LIE. You will have no resume unless you recreate it piece by piece in their proprietary forms. It may be a browser compatibility problem, it may be that my laptop is old enough that their programming doesn't recognized old Word documents, it may be that it's just a problem with their display widget, but it is maddening. They will destroy your entire finding-a-job project if you let them. Monsters indeed.
Speaking of gazelles, and translations, here's how to find them: Go to worldmeets.us. Click on the "archives" tab. Type "zeiss" into the search bar. You will see my translations, along with one that mentions Zeiss lenses.
5 comments:
Two things:
1. Great to see your translations. Thanks for sending the linking info; worked like a charm.
2. I am backing up to a comment on an older blog, in which you asked about movie adaptations based on, but changing extensively, an original text. We went to Slumdog Millionaire Saturday night - it doesn't meet the criterion but reminded me of another Bollywood/Hollywood movie we really liked: Bride and Prejudice (Pride and Prejudice set in India, with Mr. Darcy a rather haughty American visitor). Worth a watch. Slumdog Millionaire is also worth seeign, though it really tore us up. It's a very challenging film on a whole lot of levels.
Hooray! You have returned to the blogosphere!
What is happening in the photograph? Tristram is enthralled. He obviously "wants a turn". Going to see Slumdog Millionaire tonight. We are headed for Destin tomorrow. Then, HOORAY FOR FRANCE.
Tristram likes to put things in our mouths, especially the drawstrings for Jonathan's hoodies. Here he's just given me one that he wanted me to bite, and is about to take it back and put it in his own mouth. It's a favorite game of his, and the more extreme you make your bitey face, the better he likes it.
Thanks for the explanation - and thanks to "Baitshop" for asking! Now we need a picture of Tristram with a "bitey face."
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