I’m on vacation. On my annual road trip to St. Louis. Actually the first half of the actual “road trip” part is over, because after four days of driving, as of Thursday night we are in St. Louis. I had hoped to update from the road like I did last year, but I wasn’t able to, [...]
(following up to this) Boy woke up, Babysitter Allison came to get him, I very gently shifted position so as to keep my legs from going numb and as of this second my computer has not yet shut off, and we were able to reschedule Shabbos with G’s students, which means my beloved uncle from [...]
The word “Geonic” was not in my custom dictionary. Wow. That hurts. (It is now.) (Psst: Nor the word “Geonim.” Sigh.)
So Client #4 (hereinafter: Client #1) agreed to my project rate, after I spoke to him on the (shudder) phone. ICK. I hate the phone. But I have a new gig! Woohoo! Anyway, here are a few things my daughter RS has said so far in connection with this new gig.
“So is this going to [...]
I did a bad thing. I mean besides accidentally allowing my son to yank at my computer so it won’t work unless I tape the power cord to the screen in a particularly artful manner, and even then it only works some of the time. That was at least an accident; this was on purpose. [...]
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Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God. This is even worse than the near-debacle described here.
A spelling mistake. Spelling! A horrible spelling mistake. One of the most egregious spelling mistakes ever made in the history of mankind. And I didn’t catch it. I didn’t catch it. I didn’t catch it. I mean, I [...]
Have you ever encountered a sentence that’s a bit too long and too full of clauses and descriptive phrases, so that no matter how many times you redo and delete and rearrange and reinsert and otherwise reinvent the punctuation, it still looks terrible and reads like kaka, but you can’t shorten it or delete parts [...]
I’ve been doing something horribly wrong in my punctuation correcting for my client. Horribly horribly wrong. I have to fix it. I must fix it. What if I had sent it back to the client unfixed?? I was wrong. I was wrong about punctuation. Punctuation!! This is a catastrophe. The world as I know it [...]
Though not necessarily in that order.
Yesterday I did quite a bit of work for Client #1 (the paying one). I’m doing a great job, of course, except I’m having sort of a hard time. Emotionally, I mean. This is because my job is to proofread and copyedit, and to do only very light actual editing, [...]
Guess what? (you won’t guess) Our basement smoke detector started beeping (by which I mean, screaming and shrieking to wake the dead) (and alive) at 3:22 this morning (note: when preceded by a number such as 3:22, the word “morning” should be translated “night”). The glorious thing about smoke detectors these days, or at least [...]
