Ah...the "jerkoffs upstairs" isn't just for procedurals anymore. I'm sorry about that.
Everything looks good from here... Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... 'This Land.' I think we should call it 'your grave!' Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal! Ha ha HA! Mine is an evil laugh! Now die! Oh, no, God! Oh, dear God in heaven!
Wash ,'Serenity'
Spike's Bitches 27: I'm Embarrassed for Our Kind.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
erikaj - Oct 28, 2005 1:05:08 pm PDT #1219 of 10003
Always Anti-fascist!
sj - Oct 28, 2005 1:40:25 pm PDT #1220 of 10003
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Gronk. Three hour shift and my back hurt so much by the end that I was fighting back tears.
dw - Oct 28, 2005 1:46:00 pm PDT #1221 of 10003
Silence means security silence means approval
Thanks JZ. The problem isn't that we don't have anal-retentive people around here handling the data (we do, luckily, and they a long time ago decided to put the key pieces of info into a relational, queryable database.) The problem is that we have a bunch of professors who don't know how to write, procrastinate over the writing, and yet want 110% input into everything despite their lack of cooperation with the process.
The problem right now isn't with the data being disorganized but the actual process being sabotaged from on high. On high makes a switch and creates another 20 hours of work.
And oh, we have had four editors (including me) proofing the document and having ongoing arguments in the margins about whether we're using serial commas or not.
Sigh. HULK SMASH.
Glamcookie - Oct 28, 2005 1:49:53 pm PDT #1222 of 10003
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Day too long. Must leave now. Argh grr grup pow.
Amy - Oct 28, 2005 1:56:52 pm PDT #1223 of 10003
Because books.
And oh, we have had four editors (including me) proofing the document and having ongoing arguments in the margins about whether we're using serial commas or not.
But...of course you must use serial commas.
The serial comma doesn't get enough love.
t /comma traditionalist
Susan W. - Oct 28, 2005 2:05:49 pm PDT #1224 of 10003
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
If I end up freelance editing this thing, it'll get serial commas.
t sits with AmyLiz
Susan W. - Oct 28, 2005 2:10:15 pm PDT #1225 of 10003
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
ION, I just got my December issue of Romantic Times Book Club. In October. Within a week of getting the November issues of the other magazines I read. Is it just me or is this a little ridiculous? It's basically reviews of books that hit the shelves in December, so it's not too soon to preorder or make library purchase requests, but if I read it now, there's no way I'm going to still remember that any particular book sounded intriguing 6 weeks from now when I might actually see them in the local B&N.
DavidS - Oct 28, 2005 2:11:12 pm PDT #1226 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Serial commas suck. They're for fuddy duddys and maiden aunts and licorice eaters and people who have hard candy in cut glass bowls that melts together into one lump and collects dust.
Amy - Oct 28, 2005 2:11:55 pm PDT #1227 of 10003
Because books.
::pppllbbtt::
See if you ever get a picture of my super short hair.
Betsy HP - Oct 28, 2005 2:17:06 pm PDT #1228 of 10003
If I only had a brain...
::gives david the finger::