David! You need to come back to Chicago so we can go here: [link]

I wanna go!

Good diet, Robin. I think I was on that diet finishing the book.

Did I mention my copyeditor loved it? Actual words used: "brilliant" and "most satisfying thing I've read lately (work or otherwise)."

Emmett continues to be a pill, but on the way back fromlunch he went into old man mode and muttered:

"We've gotta get me back home for my estrogen treatment."

"Uh, estrogen isn't for men."

"Who said I was a man?"

Is this too shitbaggy for an academic publication:

With the introduction of content management systems in the realm of technical documentation, the authoring model has substantially changed. No longer is a single technical writer the owner and content creator for a body of product- and deliverable-specific content. Instead, writers author standalone topics that are combined in myriad ways to create deliverables for publication in multiple formats, including printed manuals, PDFs, Help systems, and Web sites. Technical writers are now challenged with the burden of co-authoring unknown deliverables with writers in disparate locations. In this paper, I will investigate how collaborative writing is successfully achieved in other disciplines, and the fostering of trust in sharing-related technologies such as wikis to suggest ways in which they may be implemented in the technical documentation community.

Definitely not. Whatever it is you mean by "shitbaggy".

Random question:

Are fishnets an exception to the general rule of "no pantyhose with open toed shoes"?

I vote yes, as long as they're fishnet all the way to the toes.

Ah, at my house, shitbaggy means insufferable or obnoxious. So you think it sounds okay as journal article abstracts go?

"We've gotta get me back home for my estrogen treatment."

Snort!

"Who said I was a man?"

Double snort!

That abstract sounds fine, GC. Not at all shitbaggy. Which is a word i fully intend to use starting... now.

It sounds abstracty! And completely in line with the kind of stuff I'm used to seeing in journals*. Go you!

* although this part may be less true for people who don't spend their time reading about collaborative writing technologies.

Omnis in my dream I was late for work and you offered to give me a ride and I kept getting mad at you because I was late. It was really unfair since you didn't have to offer me a ride in the first place.

edit: Anyway that's what I get for going back to sleep in the morning. The late-for-work-can't-get-to-work theme is almost invariably the one I explore if I wake up early and go back to sleep before an opening shift. Being chased by Voldemort was new and not surprising considering I woke up, read a few pages of Deathly Hallows and then went back to sleep.

Did I mention my copyeditor loved it? Actual words used: "brilliant" and "most satisfying thing I've read lately (work or otherwise)."

Your copyeditor is a master of understatement.