just be happy.
I am thinking about that line all morning, because I feel some negativity inside me that needs to be alleviated once and for all. Gyah. I am done feeling down!
Anyway, one of the things that pisses me off today is the fact that J*S, after pressuring me to do some translation for them, even after I rejected them so many times, failed to pay me until today. I still remember how the director called and literally begged me to "please help" them. I rejected saying I was busy, but she persisted by saying she'd cut down the amount of the translation materials by 50% and raise my fee. After about 10 minutes of arguing I finally gave in, thinking getting some extra money would be nice anyway. (Although it would also mean I'd be off schoolwork for a good fortnight). So I said yes. And the director promised she'd send me 75 pages, instead of 150 pages she initially asked me to translate. It was a Thursday morning, and I didn't hear anything from them, no e-mails no calls until Saturday morning. That morning her secretary texted me, saying she had sent me 120 pages to translate! That, I guess, was very sneaky, very unfair, but I didn't have the energy to argue back and forth.
And I tried to look at it from a positive point of view! (I know, so unlike me). I thought, probably God wanted to give me even more extra money. Oh well.
Turned out that after 10 days of laboring, of translating day and night (and weekends too!) all while juggling a proposal draft and a presentation at Dikti (which turned out to be so dreadful I wrote a special post about it), they didn't say a word about it. They pressed me to finish it in 10 days (mind you, at first they said they only wanted me to finish 75 pages in 10 days, but then they gave me 120 pages instead), and when I had finished them, tah dah, no words about it. No money. No nothing.
But I still have so many reasons to be happy! (I'd like to think that I will need no reason to be happy, that I can be happy no matter what happens, but I guess I'd have a long way until I can be that wise).
One of those reasons is: my 2nd paper is accepted at a conference in Korea! This is kinda big. Because they had 700 papers coming in, and gee, I really don't think my paper is that good.
So happy I am!
Yay me!
