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kittydesade) wrote2011-11-09 03:47 pm
kittydesade) wrote2011-11-09 03:47 pm
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Family and marriage have in recent years very much lost significance. Nowadays besides the traditional family -- married with one or more children -- there are increasingly other forms of [Zusammenlebens]. Families with only one parent, couples -- married or unmaried -- without children and so-called Patchwork families, in which partners with children [... lost the plot.] Above all more and more in large cities there are people who live alone. Also there are more and more births to people who live alone. [lit. Also the number of births there are more and more people who live alone.] Also the number of births has very much decreased, because there are many people who find it difficult to combine their career and children. Read here two stories of families with children, how they live and how they have organized their daily lives.
The working mother
Five years has Gabi Rottgen [there is no gloss for aus Lindlar Babypause, on maternity leave?] in order to be there entirely for her sons, now five and seven. [split into 'in order to entirely for her sons' 'now five and seven' to be there'] In this time her husband [verb] the livelihood for the family. [There's no single English verb that translates for this?] Now the children are in school and Kindergarten and Gabi Rottgen works again half days in her profession as a social worker. Although she only works 20 hours a week, she complains about the organizational problems. "I work mornings from eight till twelve. School is usually over at noon, as is the Kindergarten. There is childcare in the afternoon of course, but with have unfortunately no place...."
And that's a fair chunk of translation, I'm going to stop there and try for the rest tomorrow.
Still really amused when Chrome finds one of my wall o' [language] entries and asks me if I know this page is in [language] and do I want to translate it. Yes, but I have to do it myself, that's the whole point.
Oof. I hate filing. Did I mention how much I hate filing? Because I do. And now I have stacks of it I have to do to clear off my desk for the incoming sale, whenever that is. I hate having things hanging over my head. Especially big, exhausting things.
I keep having this urge to, um. We'll go with, resurrect a character I definitively killed off in a previous fic, 'cause that actually might be a spoiler for stuff and I don't want to spoil anyone. But. Urge to resurrect. Which goes entirely against the atmosphere I'm trying to convey, and goes straight into the realm of sappy romance
At some point I need to sit down and make a list of the projects I'm working on and just keep it stuck to my monitor. I've become better about shifting between projects when I'm stuck lately, but I keep forgetting how many things I'm actually working on.
1. OBB, editing.
2. Nano, writing
3. BoyWitches, writing (and may or may not ever get posted)
4. MixBangThing, plotting, soon to be writing
5. Supernatural 750 words Jessfic AU
6. There is nooooooooooooooooooooo rule 6.
Lather, rinse, alternate, repeat as necessary. Yuletide is starting up too, so I guess that'll go in section six. Supernatural AU fic I need to finish the first section, post that to AO3, and then finish the damn outline so I can finish the rest of the fic. Speaking of the first fanfic I've written in ages that's not for Yuletide, I should also probably polish and post the Underworld Lucien fic. It's weird, writing fanfic again after so long. Except for Yuletide. Yuletide is always a thing. Usually a "how many fics can I write by December 25th" thing. ... I'm not sure I want to look back and see how late I stayed up writing last minute fics last year, and yet it was kind of fun. Right. Writing tasks. Writing and editing, and guitar and music theory and dinner and Japanese. Setting 'em up, knocking 'em down.