Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Novus Ordo

Your Faithful Correspondent is back after a prolonged absence to regroup and reinvent. The new wave around here is independence, traveling light, destocking (not sure I really like that word though).

To destock in advance, there is no wine store in my immediate future, thus no stock to acquire and manage. But I still have a large inventory of words on hand and they need to be (re)capitalized. Having discovered some ability to write coherently in English, I have revived an idea and become a freelance translator. Since I like to solve puzzles, especially ones that I must dive very deeply into, it is very satisfying to analyze a sentence and surface victorious at the end.

So far, I am a generalist. My fields of specialist knowledge have not been called upon much, but I have enjoyed the variety of topics to translate. They have ranged from yoga (available now on an iPhone app near you) to coffins, grape-growing to philosophy. Nothing about food, my usual topic here, but cocktails (proofreading another app) did come up.

More soon. Really.