2014 thus far is uneventful
thus far this year, my contributions to my life are:
- teaching MA level students (just finished mid-terms advising)
- still looking for work in China, fml.
- still waiting for a renewed green card to be mailed to me
- still doing pro-bono translation work for a legal project that is gaining much traction in the field
- still working for my shitty company that is making life hell for us (i need a new fucking job)
- still freelancing as a translator even though i haven't had the time to pick up more work
- just got back into manga/anime recently, and have also added light novels to the mix
- just started learning japanese; learned that knowing chinese and english makes learning japanese frighteningly easy and difficult.
- kanji is a piece of cake
- katakana is killing my ass
- also finding much disgruntlement with japanese particles
- have no time to blog or play video games, am not much with the happy
- spent time paying down my student loans like gangbusters now that my credit card debt is fully cleared
- taking a course in financial analysis from tsinghua university on edx.org in chinese
to summarise: 3 jobs; 1 job search; 1 language learning; 1 finance course; 1 loan being speedily paid down; lots of japanese words; lots of anime/manga/light novels
p.s. in awesome news, the interpreter for michelle obama + the daughters + the mother in china this past week was my professor. i am very very proud. she is amazing. the end.
- teaching MA level students (just finished mid-terms advising)
- still looking for work in China, fml.
- still waiting for a renewed green card to be mailed to me
- still doing pro-bono translation work for a legal project that is gaining much traction in the field
- still working for my shitty company that is making life hell for us (i need a new fucking job)
- still freelancing as a translator even though i haven't had the time to pick up more work
- just got back into manga/anime recently, and have also added light novels to the mix
- just started learning japanese; learned that knowing chinese and english makes learning japanese frighteningly easy and difficult.
- kanji is a piece of cake
- katakana is killing my ass
- also finding much disgruntlement with japanese particles
- have no time to blog or play video games, am not much with the happy
- spent time paying down my student loans like gangbusters now that my credit card debt is fully cleared
- taking a course in financial analysis from tsinghua university on edx.org in chinese
to summarise: 3 jobs; 1 job search; 1 language learning; 1 finance course; 1 loan being speedily paid down; lots of japanese words; lots of anime/manga/light novels
p.s. in awesome news, the interpreter for michelle obama + the daughters + the mother in china this past week was my professor. i am very very proud. she is amazing. the end.