espain is especial

So I recall in my last post bragging about the lack of work...clearly this was the WRONG thing to do because now til sunday my ass is toast.

I have recently become the resident english translator for my organization, which is cool, but has been a ton of work over the past few days. There is a UN conference on Racism and Xenofobia thursday (i.e. tomorrow) and friday here in madrid, and it's been a lot of answering phone calls and emails, and translating all things to be published and passed out.

In addition, it's been really rewarding because i'm translating documents that will be signed by they mayor and other various political figures of madrid, so it makes me feel like i'm semi involved.

But today it's just bad...Monday this Annual Report for my office is due. it's 17 pages single spaced, in spanish, and i need to have it done by sat. so all the anal-retentive editors can have time to rip my translation apart and i can put it back together monday before 3pm. it'll be fine...i'm on page 5. I wouldn't be so worried but i've gotta go (or get to go rather) to the conference thurs and friday.

regardless, it's a good opportunity to prove my abilities to the ppl in the office, but Spain really needs to get its act together and not give me things due sat. on wed. afternoon. WORD.

so today was just one of those days where nothing is BAD necessarily, but nothing is GOOD either. i got moved again in the office (i'm jokingly the office "migrant" jaja, get it ... i'm the MIGRANT for the dept. of migration...wow i feel special) so i'm back in this kinda "spare" computer in a room with only 1 other woman -- before i was in a room with all the other ppl from my division, and was making friends, blah blah blah, so...this is kinda a "step back" in the "assimilating into the office dynamic".

To end on a positive note,
we had another "extended lunch" today to watch the Spain/Ukraine game...SPAIN DOMINATED 4-0 so, woooo gooo spain. oh, and Fernando Torres would be hot if his hairdoo wasn't so fucked up. i'm starting to develop a semi obsession with him, minus his bad fo-hawk highlighted mullet hair, that and i think he's like 15. (now i will attempt to add a photo so you can see the hot man with the bad hair, who, in my opinion, kinda resembles jack kelly from newsies...)


(i think it worked...anway...www.fernando9torres.com in case it doesn't show and you're bored)


wish you all were here,
emi