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feeling: sleepy
listening to: silence
Yeah... been kinda clinging to my Livejournal lately for some reason. Poor old blog's feeling neglected. So much happens and it doesn't get first dibs on all the news anymore. So I figured I'd throw out a catch-up post here, or whatever.
Been slightly depressed recently, for starters. Mostly owing to the death of a childhood friend of mine, one of the 14 Marines from that Lima unit killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq on August 3. Feeling a little better now though, since he's been laid to rest... but the whole thing is still on my mind for a significant part of every day. I'm sure I don't hurt over this nearly as much as his family and others who were closer to him than I was, but still it's given me a lot to think about. And I imagine it'll take a little more time yet for my thought process to return to relative normalcy.
That's not really the only explanation for this little depression kick, but that's nothing new, so moving on...
In other news, I'm currently working on my first paying translation project. It's a catalog for a Japanese company that makes motors and similar machinery, and one of the people responsible for putting it together was a graphic designer I happen to know as Kiwamu, leader of BLOOD, the band I've been translating for since early last year. When he was designing the graphics for their catalog, the company told him they wanted an English translation for it, so he recommended me to them, and it went from there. And since Kiwamu works in a graphic design company and thus does many projects of this sort for various companies, some of which also occasionally express interest in English translations, this may not be the last offer he presents to me. I always had a feeling sticking it out as this band's translator would start to pay off someday, somehow. Certain events of the past few months would've forced me to quit and walk out if not for that. But we won't talk about that here... it's in the past... and if I can stay with this now and finish this catalog in time, a nice-sized monetary gift and the possibility of other similar opportunities in the future are in store for me.
Anyway, I missed the fair again this year. I keep forgetting our wussy little county fair is only one week, not two. -_- Poor Dumplin' got sick anyway, so she didn't need to be out tromping around in the blazing heat all day... and our fair is not the kind of thing that's enjoyable on ANY level if you're there alone. You need a friend to make fun of everything with. >> But oh well... the Salt Creek Valley Festival is in about a month, and I'll be there as a community choir member again this year (practices started 2 weeks ago). It's even smaller and more pathetic than the county fair - vastly so, in fact - but at least it has a few good concession stands with fair-type food, which is pretty much the only reason I ever want to go to the county fair anymore anyway.
And hmmm... oh, my windows finally have new trim and my blinds are supposed to be delivered on Monday. *.* Gonna take a while to get used to sleeping in the (relative) dark after having nothing but bedsheets as curtains for so many years, and then having nothing at all for the past 3 months or so. Also, I finally caved and ordered some stuff from Lamoon, which should arrive in the coming week as well. I couldn't resist - everything was 25% off for one week only. T.T
And I guess that's all I can think of for the moment.
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dragged from Becky's stream of consciousness at 8/14/2005 02:00:00 AM
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