Editorial-eyesing
Jun. 4th, 2002 11:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
saxikathBlink. Blink. Rub eyes. Blink.
Finished my freelance math problem writing project today. They want me to do more, yay. (Now I have much more sympathy for my mother, who used to make me and my brother write in journals and do a page of math problems every day in the summer. We hated doing them (though I'm sure they helped keep us sharp for the new school year), but I can appreciate much better now how much she must have hated writing them. Thanks, Mom.)
Then this evening I spent hours inputting edits to the Legends rulebook, which I volunteered to edit. I'm going crosseyed. (Memo to self: need better light for desk!) More affect/effect errors per capita... sheesh. Oh well, at least I have, I think, improved it; we'll see if the Legends folks agree. At least I should get some bonus points for my character this way, and spare other folks the cringes I got from reading it initially.
Oh, and Microsoft Publisher is even worse a memory hog than anything else Microsoft I use. Yeep.
I need a backrub... volunteers?
Finished my freelance math problem writing project today. They want me to do more, yay. (Now I have much more sympathy for my mother, who used to make me and my brother write in journals and do a page of math problems every day in the summer. We hated doing them (though I'm sure they helped keep us sharp for the new school year), but I can appreciate much better now how much she must have hated writing them. Thanks, Mom.)
Then this evening I spent hours inputting edits to the Legends rulebook, which I volunteered to edit. I'm going crosseyed. (Memo to self: need better light for desk!) More affect/effect errors per capita... sheesh. Oh well, at least I have, I think, improved it; we'll see if the Legends folks agree. At least I should get some bonus points for my character this way, and spare other folks the cringes I got from reading it initially.
Oh, and Microsoft Publisher is even worse a memory hog than anything else Microsoft I use. Yeep.
I need a backrub... volunteers?
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Date: 2002-06-04 09:42 pm (UTC)Sure. I'll even take you to the Tigers-Red Sox game afterwards. What time should I expect you?
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Date: 2002-06-05 10:24 am (UTC)I can sympathize. I've been doing a lit search for a paper... one of the things I read yesterday was somebody's Master's thesis. It averaged one non-spellcheck-catchable error every two pages or so, including a than/then error in the opening sentence. What I want to know is why the author's advisor didn't throw it back.
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Date: 2002-06-05 05:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-06-05 11:01 pm (UTC)(With my strange habits, I relax more when I'm /giving/ backrubs, and oy, am I tense. Deadline day at the paper.)