Elizabeth Heighway

FR-EN translator • Med/pharma • Forestry/wood • Fiction • I occasionally translate Georgian, usually after too much espresso

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Can't believe it's 2021 and there's still no way to get Evernote to auto-sync to a Leuchtturm.

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@MiaKhach

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Not even gonna dignify that with a question mark

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HOW many times will I have to tell Kid 2 that films from the 90s do not count as “early” 🤦‍♀️

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@pizzaroquette God we’re so on trend. I started watching it last week.

[Pulp Librarian @PulpLibrarian]

Did you know: dinosaurs had precisely six different reactions* to their mass extinction 66 million years ago! Let's take a look at them...

(*stock photography doesn't lie about such things)

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Actual live footage of my To Do list

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Bloody hell dinner comes round again fast these days 😐

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(To be fair, it was being sung, and he was just passing, and I think something guttural caught his ear, BUT STILL.)

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Good to see that youngest child still manages to hear Hebrew and thinks it’s French despite his GCSE in the latter 👍

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@petergarner @AMDTransl I’m a techno dunce and managed to install Windows for ARM & memoQ on MacBook with M1 with absolutely no issues. There is something you can’t do involving Word, to do with it being a devpt not full version although I can’t remember what it is so clearly hasn’t been a huge problem!

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gonna stop telling ppl im autistic, it just alienates me more! now ill say “im overwhelmed & leaving this party where everyone is drunk, it smells like febreeze + cat litter... because im a Virgo” theyd be like “YESSS EARTH SIGN!!! Go Home and alphabetize something, Queen🥰!”

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@pizzaroquette (Well, actually I’ll be logging in under close supervision once a week to make sure I don’t miss any brick/typewriter/yoga news, ahem)

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Feeling horribly behind with *everything* at the moment so I'm handing over control of my login info to eldest child until I've caught up, either 2025 or later tonight, time will tell. Farewell! Farewell!

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@ayca_tur Failing to write a decent response to this. What an unforgivably rude and arrogant thing to do and I’m really so sorry this happened.

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Then the post-it came off and now the counter is all cluttered again so WHO’S LAUGHING (and clearing the bloody counter again) NOW, kids, eh???

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Stuck a post-it on the kitchen counter reading “This counter stays clear” and they all laughed at me and also queried the impersonal formulation which I felt was a) non-accusatory and b) felt like a statement of fact that would therefore fulfil itself etc etc. Anyway, it worked.

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@pizzaroquette (Never mind branding consultants, I would pay good money for someone to do all my client communications and financial negotiations and no I don’t mean an agency…)

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@pizzaroquette You write mine, I’ll write yours — we’ll have it done it 5 minutes.

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Just found the shipping forecast on Swedish radio. God, it was calming.