[ADMIN POST] Thank you, Angela Dickson for curating this week! A warm welcome to our next curator, Sylvain Agbolo

[ADMIN POST] Our thanks to Sylvain Agbolo for being willing to curate and a warm welcome to our next curator Eugenia Tietz-Sokolskaya

Happy Monday! I'm Eugenia, and I'll be curating this week. I'm an ATA-certified Russian>English translator; I also work from French. My focus is legal, but I also dabble in other fields, and my favorite thing to do is deciphering handwriting on historic documents.

It's the evening where I am (US East Coast), so even though I'm actually working (shh), relaxation is on my mind. What do you do to unwind and take your mind off work? Is it word-related or emphatically not? I sew and drink tea.

Another hat I wear is ATA Slavic Languages Division administrator. What T&I organization(s) are you a member of? What do you get out of it? Is there anything you wished those organizations would do more of?

One of my biggest struggles as a freelancer is knowing when/how to say "no." The client will be disappointed! If not me, who?! BUT there's just not enough time in the day for everything. Do you have any strategies for turning down requests?

I used to never work evenings or weekends (boundaries!), but then I had a kid (now 2) and chose to take care of them full time, so evenings & weekends are my only real work time. Do you keep "regular" business hours of some sort? How do you communicate your schedule to clients?

[ADMIN POST] Thank you Eugenia Tietz-Sokolskaya for your wonderful week to round out our curations for 2021 👏　 This week: no heavy lifting, just many, many thanks & the occasional silly tweet. We'll be back to our regular rotation in January. Til then have a safe & relaxing break! 🥂

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