Thursday, November 17, 2011

Rolling rolling rolling

I'm currently in the process of translating documentary evidence that deals with trains. Yes. Trains. I haven't been on one since I left England.

The team I'm responsible for (corporate finance) doesn't have a lot of work for me these days and I've mentioned on Facebook that I pretty much spend my day blogging, reading newspaper, and playing Adobe flash games. I asked one of my co-workers if I could help her and she sometimes sends some my way.
Paralegals keep a time sheet so that even if they work on someone else's case they could be count for the work they did and, more importantly, be paid accordingly.

I usually enjoy translating legal documents even if they discuss rather dry stuff like leasing buildings and what not.
This train case is just horribly boring.

What makes it worse is that I can pretty much guarantee that no one will read this. Even if they do, they'll just skim through it without paying close attention to it. This is a domestic dispute and I believe drawing up documents in English is just a formality. And I'm a victim of that formality.
The fact that this isn't exactly my work also worsens my boredom. If I had to do it no matter what there would be a fire under my ass and I'll just get it done fast. This job takes a lot of time because I need to look up all the technical terms, but I'm much faster than most people here and I've been told that the quality of my work is quite good too.

This is what happens to people who can't fake a sense of urgency.

This train case involves one particular city in Kyungki province, in which my grandparents happen to live. I asked my aunt (who lives with them) if she heard anything about this case. SHE HASN'T. Even the people who live there don't give a damn about this!

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