Not too bad, considering I have no idea where this story is going.

The odd excerpt can be found at Writing Words.

No, working 40 hrs a week plus making money freelance isn't enough. I have to write a novel as well this month.

Does the dancer turn clockwise or anti-clockwise for you?

I think this is fascinating. She turns clockwise for me, I can get her to switch, though. The human brain is truly amazing - unfortunately it is wasted on  most  people ...

The NaNoWriMo site will open for sign-up tomorrow. Not that I need to sign up, this will be my sixth time taking part in the madness this year. The last three of them were documented on my LJ, too:

NaNoWriMo2006
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I don't doubt that I'll have written 50,000 words in two months today. Despite the fact that I have no idea what ( Read more... )

Surprisingly enough, I didn't see much of the notoriously bad weather in the last seven weeks. Not that I'm complaining.

One sure sign that I've been here for some time now is that I can talk about the weather for hours...

I have been in Guildford for over seven weeks already. The town is a bit too small for my taste, but luckily London is only half an hour away by train. The internship is pretty cool. My tasks are very varied and go far beyond making coffee and copying documents. Being part of a start up that is about to either make it big or be forgotten in a ( Read more... )

A word of advise: Organising a cross-border move in seven weeks? Don't do it unless you don't have any other choice. Look up stressed out in the encyclopedia, I bet they have a picture of me there ( Read more... )

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to write a good resume and cover letter? I can write them in German in a heartbeat, but doing it in English is a lot harder than I thought. Should I turn to a professional for help?

Thanks.

Hunting down jobs as a freelance translator if you don't have any impressive reference to put on your work history is so exhausting.

Today I updated my profiles on a number of sites, bid for jobs and looked for more volunteer work to keep my translation skills at a certain level. It would be nice to land a paid gig for a change, though.