I actually find it pretty annoying to write with a smartphone/tablet. I have clumsy sausage fingers; maybe it's that. I dug out my super old Asus mini laptop not so long ago for some more mobile writing (in bed, on the can, on the living-room floor...) and I had forgotten how awesomely non-problematic and stress-relieving Linux is. I feel like I can trust my computer again.
Actually, you have elfin hands. Touchscreens are just a PITA to write with in comparison to a proper keyboard, mini or not.
I should have clarified the "now" in my sentence. Big phones like the Iphone 6 plus allow you to stand and write.
So, David Attenborough just finished telling me that coniferous trees protect their needles from being eaten by filling them with resin, which also helps reduce water loss. He said it makes the needles "distasteful". His questionable use of the word aside, he mentions that moose are one of the few animals that can eat the needles. If moose have evolved to be able to eat the needles and derive nutrition from them in the winter, do the needles still taste like shit to the moose and she just deals with it, or has she evolved to like the flavor that is so bad that other animals don't even recognize the needles as an edible thing?
It's awesome when done right. My mother-in-law and her hunter bf have served some to me and @KaTrian often when we've visited them during hunting season. @Wreybies, Kat tells me pine needles are a last resort food for moose, that they eat even the bark before the pine needles whereas horses love pine needles. There, I learned something new today.
Moose conversation. Greg ~ "Marty, come try this tree over here. This one's not so horrible as the others." Marty ~ "Dude, I tried that tree already. You're deluding yourself. They all taste like ass." Greg ~ "Yeah, I guess you're right. So tell me again why we didn't go south for the winter?" Marty ~ "Dude, I told. This way, when the honeys come back north we'll have the first pick of the finest moose babes." Greg ~ "What about the dudes that are down south with the babes right now? Aren't they getting 'first pick' as we speak?" Marty ~ *chews pine needles silently* Greg ~ "I hate you, Marty."
Hello! I may become unemployed tomorrow because the company I work for is slow but surely going bankrupt. Time to look for another job Also, it's such a pain having to constantly double-check what I write because my laptop's space key has some kind of trouble and puts extra spaces without me even realizing it! Alright, I know this was random. How is your weekend going so far?
I guess that depends on the fan you ask. Both science fiction and fantasy hold works like Julian May's the Saga of Pliocene Exile and the Galactic Milieu Series close to their respective bosoms. Same holds true for MZB's Darkover novels and Anne McCaffrey Pern books. All of them contain elements of psychic powers, the series by Julian May and Marion Zimmer Bradley most especially. Anne's work also contain dragons that are depicted as biologically plausible on a different planet, making them simply exofauna instead of mythical creatures, but the humans in that franchise "bond" with their respective dragon (if they are dragon riders) in a permanent mental bond that allows them a limited amount of telepathy with their given dragon.
In America you are a legal assistant. You must be working on the private side of the equation, not for attorneys who represent the state. Have you looked into flipping to the other side? More tedium, but also more stability. I'm an interpreter and translator for the USDOJ District of Puerto Rico in San Juan, PR. It's not 'bright lights, big city', but it pays the bills.
Exactly, I work in the private sector. There aren't a lot of opportunities for the public function and I'm basically just looking for a part-time to pay the bills while I finish my degree. Even a call-center is fine, at this point. Legal assistant positions are a bit hard to come by :/
Why does it matter? Does anybody raise a fuss if a novel is filed as "science fiction" or "science fantasy"? If someone doesn't like psychic powers, they won't read the book. They won't complain to the bookstore about which shelf they found it on.
How good is your English, honestly, on a scale of 1 (very poor) to 10 (Native speaker with an accent). There's a point to all these questions, I swear.
You mentioned being willing to do call center work. Long, long ago I worked for this company: http://www.languageline.co.uk/ It's like a call center job, but you do it from home. It's the only over-the-phone interpreter service I know that has a training program for bilinguals to become interpreters. Other companies require that you have prior formal education in the field. I was a senior interpreter for them. My degree is in the field. The call volume for Spanish in the Americas was grueling, but I understand that call volume for Portuguese is considered "moderate" not "high-to-very high" like it is for Spanish. From Lisbon you would also be fielding calls from the Americas, and my friends who are Portuguese 'terps for the company tell me that Brazilian Portuguese is the majority of calls. I often took calls from hospitals and legal venues in the U.K. since many 'terps from this side of the world have difficulty with stronger U.K. accents. Not me though. Anyway, just an option.
No worries. It's not the most ideal job. The company is huge, so the interaction isn't very personal, but it sounds like you're not looking for a "forever job" right now.
Speaking of jobs, it would be nice to have one that pays ridiculously so I don't have to work every day to make enough money.
Oh yes. I was rather disappointed when it turned out that most of the people who make ridiculous amounts of money that I know work twice the hours I do!
