Temp stuff is so random

[dragojustine]

Funnest temp job in the world for the last two days. This studio on Capitol Hill makes corporate videos, and they have a contract to make a video for Microsoft all about Microsoft’s huge collaboration thing with a Russian university and a major Russian oil company to make some sort of new system. Anyway, the studio sent a crew to Siberia to do tons of filming, in Russian, of interviews with people from the oil company, people who actually work the oil wells, people at the University in Siberia, and Microsoft Russia people. Then they brought the Russian guy doing the interviews here to translate all the stuff they shot, and (because he can’t type) me in to transcribe for him. We were time-stamping and transcribing all the usable bits of the film.

Russian translator guy was great fun. His English wasn’t great- he apparently lives in Sweden and doesn’t speak it much?- and he was constantly fumbling for words and idioms, so it was a lot more collaborative than I expected. The actual content was fun too- I know more than I ever wanted to about what sort of considerations go into running oil wells in Siberia. Anyway, it was a great way to spend two days.