sadly, I cannot kill anyone with my brain, no matter how hard I try

[astro_noms]

So I get money from my parents while I'm at school, right? My dad sends it through Western Union, which means I have to find somewhere to pick it up, and there just so happens to be several places within walking distance of my new flat, including a branch of the place I usually go to. However, the place I usually go to has some political connections I'm not exactly fond of, so I figured I'd wander a bit farther and see what else there was. So I walked into a bank I've used before to pick up the money transfers, and the teller helping me was so nice and so helpful, that when I complained that my bank's branch next door had been shut down, and hey, it's not like I could pick up money transfers there, he suggested that I try opening an account with them to see if I liked it better. And I know that it's standard to offer an account to a non-client, but he was just so damn nice about it that I ended up unable to say no, and consequently half an hour later, I walked out with a new bank account. Which, given that I've had twinges of dissatisfaction with various things my bank does, is perhaps not the worst of ideas.

I'm slowly acclimating to being back in classes here in Poland, and things aren't going too badly. There is a meeting regarding the translation internships in a little while, and while I already have the required hours (through the stuff I did for the translation company last year), I still need them to give me an officially signed piece of paper validating it, and then I can get the signature from the internship coordinator and get that out of the way.

I've been thinking more about the MA program, and I've realized that I'm not sure if I really want to do a translation MA. Chances are any thesis I wrote for a program like that would involve theoretical analysis of translations of... whatever, but the thing is, I don't really want to do theoretical stuff. I realize I have to learn the theory so I can be a better translator, but actually writing a whole master's thesis on it isn't something I'm particularly inclined towards. I suppose there is always the possibility of arranging an alternate MA project, and doing a translation of my own, but I have no idea how that would work and the prospect of having to fight through several layers of bureaucracy to get to someone who'll give me an actual meaningful answer is daunting. Once I get fully settled in, I'm still planning on setting up a meeting with someone who can give me more info about how the whole thing works, and hopefully I can sort out something soon.

All of that will have to wait until I'm not feeling like my insides are reenacting historical battles on an hourly basis. /o\