what i’m loving this week
Summer is ante portas (for quite some time now, actually) and I can’t stop drooling over not-work-related summer things. Procrastination level: helpless!
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Διακοπές στην Πραγματικότητα
Αυτό το σαββατοκύριακο διαβάζω ποίηση, ψάχνω να βρω μυθιστορήματα για την επόμενη εβδομάδα, ψάχνω χρόνο για απογευματινές βουτιές, βρίσκω deadlines και ξεχασμένες δουλειές – what are the symptoms of being overworked? Λατρεύω αυτό τον τίτλο. Tι διαβάζετε το καλοκαίρι; Τι προτείνετε να διαβάσω; Τέλειωσα τα πρώτα 3 του Ρέμπους (Ίαν Ράνκιν), ξαναδιάβασα το Μεγάλο Γκάτσμπι…
Casual Friday and a cover story
After the Great Gatsby I begun reading Tender is the Night during my short island break last weekend. Mediterranean, a little on the verge of decadent, atmospheric and I’m still in page 70. It is amazing, too, how many different covers I found. naif, simple, elegant, retro, art nouveau, 60’s twelve different editions for a…
What a passion! A small note on translating slang
How would you translate “passion pit“? In a straight forward, literal manner, the two words are fairly easy to understand and communicate. While translating literature, however I have come accross various idiomatic phrases that one has to decipher in order to be able to translate effectively. It is necessary to know all the dessous of many…
Casual Friday (and the day-off guilt)
DAY OFF. Time out. Call in sick. We all need a little break (from work, stress, reality in general!). I have found that I am too busy this summer to take an official holiday but I will “steal” a few weekends for myself. And clear my head for the days ahead (pun not intended). Just a couple…
On A July Monday
image via Libraries gave us power Then work came and made us free What price now for a shallow piece of dignity …. We don’t talk about love we only want to get drunk And we are not allowed to spend As we are told that this is the end Manic Street Preachers, A design…
Casual Friday and reading quotes
Ρομαντικό ή δήθεν, λογοτεχνία = ζωή έλεγε το αγαπημένο μου γκράφιτι στην παραλία της Θεσσαλονίκης “Romantic or a cliche – literature = life” was my favorite grafitti on the walls of Thessaloniki ********************** “Και η ποίηση είναι σαν να ανεβαίνεις μια φανταστική σκάλα για να κόψεις ένα ρόδο αληθινό” έλεγε ο Τάσος Λειβαδίτης “And poetry…
Tick-tock
“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once” Albert Einstein. Well, sometimes it does, doesn’t it???
Get casual! It’s Friday (and Game of Thrones inspired recipes!)
This has been a hectic week full of legal and various document translations, many language combinations and many different types of jobs. I’m still working on Saturday but I’m taking some evenings off to relax in my garden sipping mojitos, or chilled white wine (I’m reading Ian Rankin at the moment where they are always sipping…
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