International day of translatorship

Happy professional holidays to all colleagues! This day really means to me because translator is truly my dream job.

It was established in 1990s - and I think it was a really good idea to remember how important translators are. A day when St Jerome, philosopher and translator of the Bible died was chosen for it (more history under the link hidden under the title).

How did I celebrate it today? I did not translate anything and did not meet up with any colleagues, only checked a "debt" translation one of my students emailed me... It was not discussed at the Uni: none seemed to remember it coming on Friday as we had the 5th false alarm about a bomb at the Uni building within one week. Someone is really enjoying themselves but it is really nerve-racking and it ruins all plans and makes everyone nervous! MY class failed on Friday :(

I went on a bit of fotographing binge today, having a 2-hours solitary walk on the river bank near the local port (going to put up September autumn pics in the next post). A couple of colleagues texted me with best wishes on the day. I'm glad I'm having something else to celebrate tomorrow - nameday, and it's teachers' day on the 5th of October (which I can also think of as a professional holiday now!)

Photo: my dictionaries. I have a couple more in my desk and still a couple more (A linguistic encyclopaedia and a thesaurus) lying about in my bedroom

A bit of September flavour

Yesterday it was a bright clear day we haven't seen for ages! There had been a frost at night and in the morning the sky was dazzling blue. We happened to be out of town yesterday dropping into the village where my godmother lives. There are bits of yellow colour noticeable in the by-road groves, like yellow threads in the birches, and the leaves on the little lawn before the house were brilliant in colour and sparkling in the morning dew. I did not have a camera to capture all the brilliance of the day, but I picked a bit of colourful leaves and here I scan them for a little taste of autumnal beauty. Generally is is more ar less green outside, but in a week it will all turn golden and flame, so I must prepare the camera to preserve this year's feast of colour!

S&S soundrack

Both the new and the older P&P have lovely soundtracks and so does Emma with Gwyneth Paltrow, but S&S with Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet will always have the most beautiful soundtrack in my opinion. It is so poignant and sweepingly powerful in conveying emotion. Even if my love for the film was not from the first sight... And now I wish I could get hold of a copy of "Sense and Sensibility Diaries" by Emma Thompson. Surely that would prove an interesting and intelligent account of how they did the film. Actually, I am looking forward to the new S&S miniseries which is to appear in 2008 The casting seems just so well done (they have a very god-looking Edward as a matter of fact!), even Elinor is not exactly blond. My imagining Elinor blond is just because I am finding character similarities with her and am also imagining our appearance a little similar!