Tep, if you want his head to explode we could send him the manuscript I'm editing. In an overheard conversation, someone just "charmed" in. It's a winner, let me tell you.
Joyce: And what did you do tonight? Dawn: Irritated Giles. I'm beginning to get why Buffy likes it so much.
'Get It Done'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Amy - Oct 19, 2009 10:02:57 am PDT #14386 of 30001
Because books.
Barb - Oct 19, 2009 10:03:53 am PDT #14387 of 30001
“Not dead yet!”
Tep, if you want his head to explode we could send him the manuscript I'm editing. In an overheard conversation, someone just "charmed" in. It's a winner, let me tell you.
::cries and cries and cries::
Amy - Oct 19, 2009 10:05:14 am PDT #14388 of 30001
Because books.
::cries and cries and cries::
Yes indeed. It's a memoir about ... how much this guy thinks we should all believe in God, and REJECT SATAN.
Envy me. Go on.
flea - Oct 19, 2009 10:07:38 am PDT #14389 of 30001
information libertarian
Truly, the life of an editor is glamorus.
Ginger - Oct 19, 2009 10:10:37 am PDT #14390 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Tell him it's a test for the writers, Teppy. It's carefully designed to see whether they have sufficient attention to detail.
Kathy A - Oct 19, 2009 10:11:44 am PDT #14391 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
The one time I helped a friend out on a rush editing job she had, it was for a really interesting book--a translation of a book on the history of the bossa nova. I learned all about the guy who wrote "Girl from Ipanema".
Calli - Oct 19, 2009 10:13:11 am PDT #14392 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
In an overheard conversation, someone just "charmed" in. . . . It's a memoir about ... how much this guy thinks we should all believe in God, and REJECT SATAN.
Well, the first step would probably be knocking off the charms and other spell-casting.
-t - Oct 19, 2009 10:45:13 am PDT #14393 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
In an overheard conversation, someone just "charmed" in.
Oh, like those NBC ads. I hope it was with a glockenspiel. Xylophones are so passe.
Cashmere - Oct 19, 2009 10:50:48 am PDT #14394 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.
Kathy, I watched the same special late Saturday night!
Steph L. - Oct 19, 2009 11:02:29 am PDT #14395 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Oh my god. Big!Boss made one of the assistants go down to our storage space and root through boxes and boxes of galleys going back to last year, because no one knows exactly when the Horrible Misspelled Guidelines were written, so we don't know which month it would have been filed with.
Our storage area? Is a section of the underground parking garage, delineated by thick concrete walls, with a chain-link fence "door." It's been in the 40s and 50s for over a week, and she has to dig through those boxes in an unheated concrete room in an underground parking garage.
For one goddamn misspelled word.
(No wonder everyone hates our department.)