griping, of various types

[edenfalling]

Am working on a translation. It is a bitch. I'm sure the man could be more convoluted if he tried (this is German, you can always be more convoluted), but he would have to go a long way to be more obscure. And he uses a lot of technical jargon, which, this being Greek archeology in Ionia (west coast of modern Turkey, more or less), is a pain. And it can be damned hard to tell place-names from jargon words -- this is one thing I like about the English division of nouns in proper ones (capitalized) and all others (lowercase).

*bangs head against computer*

I thought I'd be done with this Monday afternoon. I underestimated the time. Damnit, the first pages weren't this difficult! *wails*

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I used to take birth control pills to regulate my menstrual cycle -- I have massively irregular periods, because I apparently have a slight hormonal imbalance. I went off them a year ago because they're freaking expensive and I figured I could deal with irregularity.

I kind of miss them. It was nice to know when my periods would start, and how heavy or light they'd be. These days, I can get extremely light, sluggish flow for 8 days, or gushing floods for about 4 days (complete with cramps -- I don't get pain, really, just massive discomfort, unpleasant heat, and queasiness). This completely throws off my attempts to buy the right type of pads and tampons, because I don't know what the hell I'm buying for. Grrr.

(I don't get pissy before my periods. I get pissy during my periods. Before, I get increased post-nasal drip, which is just stupid.)

Comments

[evercool.livejournal.com]

Aaah, you must be careful if you get more than one period a month! I didn't know until I mentioned maybe once a year I can have up to 3 within a 40 day timeframe XD;; It's an unhealthy amount of bloodloss and can screw up other stuff in your body....

But that sounds really annoying D: *pet pet* I avoided the pill because I heard it makes you way more emotional. Is it true? XD

Good luck on the trans~~ ♥

[edenfalling]

I don't usually get too many -- my problem is that because of the hormonal imbalance, sometimes I don't get any periods for months. I had a nine-month gap between them once, which worried the doctors a bit! But I'm less irregular now than I was before being on the pill for three and a half years.

I wasn't any more emotional, but then, I was also taking anti-depressants for most of the same time period, so I don't think I'm a good test case. :-)

[snaegl.livejournal.com]

Sorry the translation is giving you this much angst! If you want to email me random Greek lists to my yahoo account I'll break out the ol' Lexicon later tonight.

If it makes you feel any better, I'm in the midst of trying to decode some questions another one of our German translators sent to us. I think when the German language discovered archaeology, the daughter of Chaos was born...