Beanbag ✅ book in right hand ✅ hot chocolate in left hand ✅ snow in Southern California ✅

6 pounds of Viet-Cajun crawfish to kick off the girls trip with 5/8 of my fellow CLD key volunteers! Jessie Liu Sijin Xian, CT, MACI Shaoli Gu & Tingting Qin! These beautiful ladies came to H Town from all over the country, including Hawaii!

Although puzzled, I was able to understand what “recovery” meant (i.e. recycling, or being harmless to the environment). But to quote my professor - “good translation or interpretation doesn’t require much effort to understand.” Any thoughts? #Rome #translation #illy

At #NAJIT2023 I spoke about the stressful situation being the “check interpreter” or the “checked interpreter” in a legal proceeding. It was well-received I think. I also want to thank those who indulged my cheesy “apple” joke.

Some typos are just so unforgiving 😂

Language industry take note! It is time to act. Interpreting Safe-AI Task Force Workgroup Announces Formation and Public Meeting to Advance Fair and Ethical AI in Interpreting Industry newswire.com/news/interpret… #1nt #AI

Well it looks like he’s thrown in the towel 😂 I can relate though, especially at the end of a long day of interpreting. I am gonna give this squirrel a name. He looks like a Bob.

Calmness in the roaring rapids @ Algonquin State Park

Hurricane Hilary is approaching, one in 80+ years. Be safe, southern Californians. While I hate to see these potentially catastrophic weather events happening in rare places, I am a little pleased to catch a break in the hot day streak with concrete-egg-frying temperatures.

Here to vent: due to the implementation of a new (and BAD) world clock app, I ended up doing two full-day remote depositions back to back, 1st in California lasting 7.5 hours, followed by the 2nd in Taiwan lasting 10 hours, within a 24-hour period. And get this, I am Athens. 🤯🤯

The power of compounding!

A memorabilia from the future 🤪🤪 Thank you Daniel Aparicio it was so good catching up with you at #ATA64!! See you in Paris🤞

Greetings from DC from my 12th mile marker 🚶‍♀️

Today I met a 1-legged seagull whom I decided to name Gilbert. It just sounds like a fitting name to this bird. Despite life’s misfortune, it carries a tone of happiness. Merry Christmas 🎄 Gilbert. Who needs legs anyways when you have the entire sky!

On the flight back from Europe, the announcement said : “ladies and gentlemen, our aircraft is experiencing a technical issue…” then the announcement stopped. As I reached for the safety card to review, the announcement continued: “…with the entertainment system…”😅😅😅

Rules are necessary because it sets expectations and keep things orderly. However, I am also a huge fan of common sense. Examples to follow - (1/3)

i.e. on an 60% empty Alaska Airlines flight, I wanted to switch to row 22 which was empty from my assigned seat in row 21. My request was denied 🙅‍♀️ because of weight distribution. Then I said how about I pay $75 to get an upgraded seat in one of those empty rows upfront? (2/3)

i.e. going through security at the airport, a big bottle of 21 OZ. of shampoo must be confiscated but wait, how about i put the same content in 7 smaller bottles? Sure, go right on in 🙄🙄 (common sense at its finest moment)

Context is everything! My son’s golf ball went into the bush. The rule official asked if he was going to THWACK the ball outta there. What a fun word! I knew exactly what he meant without ever having heard of the word, or is it even a word?