Joey Potter
After doing the first translation assignment myself, I could relate a lot to this passage.
"I am terrified of reading my translation after it has been published because I know that I will find errors, omissions, or things that I would now say differently. I need that arrogance during the translation process to sustain me to the finish."
I had a very similar experience. Every time I would look back over my translation, I would find parts of it that I didn't like and/or want to rephrase, and I'm sure if/when I look back at it on Monday I'm going to find some indefensible parts of it or parts that I want to revert to an earlier draft, delete, change entirely, etc. So, when I was composing it, I basically just had to just pick an arbitrary stopping point and decide that it was good enough; exactly the kind of arrogance that Cathy Hirano describes.
Also, I was surprised by how large the added passage was to explain Juku. I think that it was a great idea and fit very well, but I didn't know that that kind of thing was allowed/normal in translation.
Here is a picture of the cover. I'm noticing her name isn't credited on the front.
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