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Next up: Now Translating: Method and Device for Manufacturing Electro-optical Device Translated: Hydrodynamic Bearing Device, Spindle Motor, and Information Device (a fancy name for a hard disk drive) Motorcycle Film Formation Method, Method for Manufacturing Electro-optical Device, Electro-optical Device, and Electronic Apparatus (worth about 23,000 words) Fluid Discharge Method and Fluid Discharge Device (worth about 23,000 words) Method for Manufacturing Printed-circuit Board Source Driver of Display Panel and Drive Control Method Method for Manufacturing Molded Article, and Membrane Element Device for Removal of Intermaxillary Fixation (Something about unbinding a jaw that has been wired shut) Semiconductor Device, Method for Manufacturing Semiconductor Device, and Method for Manufacturing Semiconductor Package (A method for making semiconductor chips even smaller) Engine Generator (yet a different job, same title) Method for Manufacturing Film Formation Member
Mini Diary
8/12/2009 Final testing today at BYU. I will be glad to finish this annual intensive course that I teach. It's stressful for teacher and students alike. I have a hard time dieting during such courses and I have come to the conclusion that I eat more when under stress. Now that the course is essentially done, I can rededicate myself to losing weight (I think I have rededicated myself several times already this summer!).
8/5/2009 Swamped is not the word for it. I have work coming out of my ears. In the fall semester beginning in September, I have been assigned a new class, Japanese 321 Readings in Modern Document Styles. It is right up my alley. We will read various newspaper articles, magazine articles, technical documents, and so forth. I probably won't be able to keep the class permanently because so much shuffling of faculty assignments goes on every semester.
Notable Picture of the Day, Week, Month, Year (or whenever I update it)
I am a teacher and a translator. I enjoy the former most, but I do the latter the most. In fact, if I am not sleeping or teaching, I am translating. I mostly live a sedentary life at my desk typing into the wee hours of the morning. I am trying to exercise more, but alas, the next project is due and ...