Ooh, if they offered a flower share I would totally do that. I never end up eating much of the fruit I get though.
Now I did a job. I got nothing but trouble since I did it, not to mention more than a few unkind words as regard to my character so let me make this abundantly clear. I do the job. And then I get paid.
Mal ,'Serenity'
Natter 66: Get Your Kicks.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
brenda m - May 18, 2010 9:45:16 am PDT #127 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Zenkitty - May 18, 2010 9:53:23 am PDT #128 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I *so* feel your pain. (Pagination is my responsibility here.)
Dear Gott in Himmel, this journal is the worst I've ever worked on. The pagination is done manually, no automated checks at all until it's too late to change it, so by the time one realizes it's wrong, one has paginated five more issues. Incorrectly. It didn't LOOK like it would be that bad when I took it on, anyone who can count ought to be able to do it, and yet, it's a malevolent clusterfuck. Every editor who's ever worked on it has messed up, but I still feel awful; I hate making stupid mistakes, and I hate even more doing it twice.
Damn. I hope it's not too early to drink, because there's vodka in this here coke.
Zenkitty - May 18, 2010 9:57:29 am PDT #129 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
cereal with angst:
NOTHING ON THE SPINE.
Oh, dude, I hear you. The horror stories... One of our journals once published a big obituary of one of the Important Fellows on the cover, and we got the birth-death dates wrong. Like, really wrong. (My boss did it, too. Remembering that is the only thing that keeps me from crawling under the bed and hiding.)
Steph L. - May 18, 2010 10:12:03 am PDT #130 of 30001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
The pagination is done manually
Whuzza? How? Whuzza?
tommyrot - May 18, 2010 10:14:53 am PDT #131 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Whuzza? How? Whuzza?
Pagination Elves.
Tom Scola - May 18, 2010 10:35:59 am PDT #132 of 30001
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
tommyrot - May 18, 2010 10:37:55 am PDT #133 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Like this.
Ooh. Is that a Linotype machine in the background?
Theodosia - May 18, 2010 10:50:26 am PDT #134 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I thought you'd hire Medieval monks to do it.
Cass - May 18, 2010 10:56:09 am PDT #135 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
We even got a cover spread color proof from the printer, and we all looked at it, and not one of us twigged to the fact that there was NOTHING ON THE SPINE.
Oh t NSFW comment !!!!!
as much as my innards are just so perpetually irritated that anything other than water is just adding to the irritation.
Dude, sometimes just water seems to bug mine. Also insent, Tep.
Amy - May 18, 2010 10:56:41 am PDT #136 of 30001
Because books.
Eighteen years ago I actually got a couple freelance jobs for a smaller publisher waxing pages onto boards, and trimming them so the facing pages had even numbers of lines. Even at the time I was like, Seriously?!