Announcement: I have a big yummy salad from the caf downstairs for lunch. I have less than no interest in eating it.

Analysis: Feh.

A client of ours is having a major crisis, so time is flying as I busily try to fix it. Unfortunately, I think I've fixed it.

I'm just going to come out and admit it.

Track Changes confuses the hell out of me and I want to cry.

Track Changes confuses the hell out of me and I want to cry.

Track Changes is of the devil.

It's made of Satan, Allyson.

What's the issue you're having with it right now?

Here's a cool new blog I found:

Prides and Prejudices: Daily essays and cartoons about science, literature, history, and culture from Keira, a sardonic high school English teacher.

The current essay (permalink) is Keira's Guide to Easier, Faster, Results-Oriented Writing, which is pretty funny. She discusses how web pages should consider their readers:

Second, examine the readers:

-- Those considered Intelligent readers are looking for original content, and are able to discern quickly what the real agenda of the piece is, and thus avoid becoming a source of click-through revenue [3]. They are death.

-- Active readers are those who can quickly scan a page and figure out what next place the author is trying to take you: Whether they are trying to sell you on a new computer, political candidate, lifestyle, religion, or literary criticism, all writing is now expected to be presenting an argument, with the goal of moving a product of some kind [4]. In the simple-minded economics of these readers, if they are in sync with your next place, they are in sync with you, and will return. If not, they will go somewhere else more hospitable.

-- Passive readers are those who get easily confused, have poor locomotor skills, and click on advertising, pop-up ads, and false leads until their browser crashes. They are your meat, and it should be your aim to gather them to your writing.

I want that woman to show me where it has been proven that the Harry Potter books have harmed children.

Right? It's not like Avada Kedavra actually works, y'know.

....um, guys? Guys?

Where'd everybody go???

I've been wrestling with editor's notes, and don't really get how to do them smoothly. It's hard to describe. I want to accept some changes, reject a few, and then there's highlighted suggestions for added text from my editor. So I'm having issues doing the note, then deleting the comment, then accepting my own changes...it's confusing. Or maybe it's my disorganized brain. I feel like I'm defusing a bomb.

Ciao.(because I'm y'alls sheep) Book banners: Like the Worst People in the World and Farenheit 451(which I'd remembered as something I read but I think I am wrong about that. ) But I get the irony anyway.

I do love Track Changes. But I begin to hate it when other people publish documents with the changes unaccepted.

The hell? Does no one proofread?

Irritating assed morning, and now I have to go to Costco. And not spend money. And can't work out why my health insurance company thinks I'm inactive. And why people want $697 of my monies.