Monthly Archives: August 2005

Wow, trapeze is fun. It’s like swinging on a swingset as a child, but ramp it up several degrees. My hands are raw and my feet don’t like me standing on the bar and I barely have the strength to … Continue reading →

Okay, I’m not an officer of the grammar police, as anyone who reads my blog can easily attest, but few errors do get under my skin. Usually those that result from people trying to sound smart and formal and instead … Continue reading →

Margaritas are good. Not beserker than usual yet. Thanks, Carrie and Anne Marie. Hope to trapeze with you tomorrow!

I listened to the Range at lunch–yummy potato-leek-spinach soup experiment and egg salad–and they played Willie Nelson singing “Time After Time.” Yes, the Cyndi Lauper song. I like her version best. I’m bored at work. Not really anything to do. … Continue reading →

It’s so nice to have a life again, although the fun is a bit of a shock, a little overwhelming. First, Friday after work Chip and I were Clocked. I then got tired from stuffing myself with so much food … Continue reading →

I found this description of copyeditors in an interview of Steven Pinker in Copyeditor quite amusing: The copy editor is, in a way, a combination of shaman (who possesses arcane secrets, like when to use an en dash), trusted friend … Continue reading →

I’m eating lunch at my desk, pepper soup and pimento cheese on french bread. I’m listening to the Range, wearing my super soft self-made shrug, and it is Friday. Life is good. So what is there to do tonight? Chip, … Continue reading →

Sometime after five a.m. this morning, I finished that songbird edit. The amount of work on it just kept growing and growing. Surprisingly, I am not a walking zombie yet, but maybe that will hit me after lunch. Tonight I … Continue reading →

So my first day was really good, but I’m exhausted, and have an impossible amount of freelance work to start. I learned I got outbid on the farmhouse, so unfortunately I won’t get it, but I figure something else good … Continue reading →

I stayed up until 2 a.m. last night finishing the edit on two manuscripts. Now just one long one to go. And I am supposed to start real work tomorrow. I’m not going to have much a social life this … Continue reading →