Sereia's Ranking de Hotéis e Locais para Eventos em São Paulo

(Totalmente subjetivo, parcial e visivelmente incompleto. Reflete apenas o ponto de vista de uma intérprete)

Melhor almoço buffet (para muitos convidados)- Meliá WTC

Melhores salas para eventos médios/pequenos- Hyatt (as salas com janelões de vidro do lado esquerdo)

Melhor coffee-break- Rennaissance

Pior local para montagem de cabine de intéprete- Sesc Vila Mariana (visibilidade zero)

Melhor lugar para e$tacionar quando o trabalho é no Meliá WTC- Hotel Estaplanza

Hotel mais bonito- Hyatt

Prêmio Anda Logo Zé (café mais demorado no bar do lobby): Hilton (menção honrosa Hyatt)

Prêmio Quem Sou Onde Estou para Aonde Vou- Parlatino (lá no Memorial, é do Nyemayer a propósito, vai achar o banheiro naquele prédio redondo!)

Prêmio Decadence sans Elegance- Maksoud

Prêmio Way Overrated- Hilton

Prêmio Mico de Ouro- ExpoCenter Norte (longe, inóspito, difícil de achar, o transito é péssimo)

Prêmio Cubículo de Ouro - Emiliano (menor sala de reuniões que já vi na vida, juro pra ir ao banheiro precisa pedir pro cliente mexer a cadeira)

Prêmio Ceci n'est pas une Chaise - Cadeiras de corda dourada do Emiliano

Prêmio Decadence avec Elegance- Ca'doro (que também leva o special award louça retrô mais linda)

Prêmio Revelação - Hotel Jaraguá (agora Accor alguma coisa: central, bonitinho, arrumadinho, cheiroso e deve ser baratinho)

Prêmio Pet Peeve de Decoração de Eventos- Qualquer mesa de apoio que tenha grãozinhos de café espalhados (e como eles adoram isso!)

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The Yes Men. Identity theft, identity correction and Gilda, the Dow Acceptable Risk golden skeleton.

Leave that booth door open. Here's a very interesting report on interpreter workload commisioned by AIIC. It evaluates psychological, physiological, physical and performance aspects and the relationship between them. It turns out that stress eats us up on the long run but it doesn't seem to affect performance much. And that the booth is an asfixiation-inducing device, with unnaceptable CO2, humidity and temperature levels. As if we hadn't noticed that.

It's All Good Tracing an expression.

I leaned back exhausted. I always found it amusing and slightly embarrassing when I had to translate praise about my own work. Excerpt from the book On Interpreting by Suzanne Glass.

Birdsongs and avian "linguistics". And the long article that set me off in this wild canary chase: How the songs of canaries upset a fundamental principle of science

R.I.P. Lavinia Henderson Cotrim, English translator and interpreter based in São Paulo, Brazil. She leaves one son and one daughter. Mima, as she was affectionately called, was too young to die, too corageous to die. I last saw her about two months ago. It was a chance encounter, away from the conference rooms of São Paulo. G. and I were visiting the waterfalls of Brotas and there she was by Angela's side, wearing a helmet and climbing gear, waiting in line to go down the Cachoeira Cassarova.

When I heard the message on the answering machine last Friday I misheard Denise: "vc sabe da Mima?" instead of "vc soube da Mima?". I thought to myself: "yes I think I know Mima's whereabouts, she is probably at the Chapada dos Guimarães with Angela. Then I reviewed the messages today, and that little verb tense just told me that bad news were on the way.

I feel sad for our Mima with the dry sense of humor and adventure spirit. For our Mima who refused to buy a cell phone in the name of her privacy. I feel sad for the incredible loneliness of the world, and for our blindness in realizing it can engulf our friends too.

Her memorial service will take place on January 08, at Capela do Colégio Américo, São Paulo, Brazil, at 7pm.