I haven’t written anything for so
many weeks and the year is now going.
I don’t have enough work to make
the company in profit these days, which is of course scary. In November, I had
a small translation job about IOLs and a 3-day interpretation job for the same
company about a training for sales trainers. And this month was better with two
translation jobs for a Tokyo company affiliated with a German-based airline, 1-day
interpretation for a Japanese TV producer and, in the following week in Tokyo, a
4-day interpretation job for medical-equipment engineers. I really enjoyed my
stay in Tokyo, even with minor accidents (I got lost my way in Shimbashi as the
trains and the Hahamatsucho platform were very crowded… Somehow, I managed to
rejoin them after an hour or so).
And it’s been about penmanship, fountain
pens and Kaiko Takeshi. I got Rotring (not
Montblanc) pens with five different nib sizes. And some dip pens too. And trying
to see how it feels writing with them.
The book about Kaiko by Tanizawa
was so powerful that my interest, limited to his reports about the Vietnam War
until then, in Kaiko deepened. After this book by Tanizawa, I’ve read “輝ける闇, ” “青い月曜日,” ”夏の闇,” “破れた繭,” and ”夜と陽炎.”
