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What kept me from signing on in the past was always my fear of having to turn down a translating job during November. This year I decided to bite the bullet...and on October 24, a client approached me with a well-paying job, but he apologized that it had to be finished by October 31. Is this some kind of message from on high or what?
OK, I'm slaving away on the translation and still have far to go. Now it's October 30, and I have to take time off to take my dog to the parking lot of our Regional Council, where the vet will be giving rabies shots. This is most inconvenient, especially since I've just wasted an hour and a half looking for an elusive translation in all my dictionaries and all over Google. One of my neighbors, call him Sam, is everyone's guru when it comes to grammar (the topic of my translation). Casting my eyes heavenward, I suggested that it would be nice if Sam just happened into the parking lot.
You know the rest. Except that I only started nanowrimo on November 3, but had it not been for Jinja's rabies shot, it'd've been lots later than that!