A week in the life

...of a traductrice apprentie.

• 20 hours of class -- general, legal and economic translation from French and from Spanish into English, plus beginning German
• 10 - 15 hours of paid work
• 50ish pages of reading from an economics textbook
  
• 20 or so pages of translation homework (about 40 hours' worth) -- an excerpt from a WTO dispute settlement case, a chapter from an economics textbook detailing the role of the Swiss National Bank in international monetary policy, the first two chapters of a Pennac novel, a blog post detailing the similarities between Société Générale's rogue trader and the Chairman of the Board of Directors at UBS, a newspaper article on illegal immigration to Spain, a newspaper article on excess liquidity, an excerpt from a telephone company's service contract, and an opinion piece on global urbanization.
• German grammar exercises
• a freelance editing job (my last freelance job this semester!)
• and, if possible, thesis research.
  

Life is crazy. I have no free time. My neurons are shot and my synapses are no longer firing...