And, no answer. Looks like I could have gone as early as 7 am. Apartment stinks, man. That liquid backup is FOUL.

This week is not starting well.

I left the house at 6:45 this morning to come use the gym at work, only to discover that my key card wouldn't work on the gym door, plus I just realized I am wearing a dress, and I have an appointment with the oncologist, and the first thing they are going to say is "strip to the waist."

eta: and now I have a run in my stockings.

Erin, how about: Erin [last name] Wordsmith.

Cash, that's some mighty ass you're banging around that track. You need to work on your War Face. I want you to practice your grimace in the mirror before the next bout.

Rainy day in SF. Back from taking Emmett to school and have to move the car ahead of the street sweeper. Matilda's out of school as it's on a furlough day.

Erin, I like Hec's suggestion of Wordsmith. Perhaps with some kind of tag about forging, and or a logo with blacksmith tools?

Way to go, Cash's ass!!

Way to go away, Kathy's ass!!

I've thought about Wordsmith, and I like it; my only concern is that there are a lot of wordsmith websites out there.

Would something like Erin ------: Wordsmith be professional and distinctive enough? I don't want to be too complex, twee or esoteric (I told Barb if I had my druthers, I'd be Erin ------, Writing Consigliere, but that's TOO esoteric, but I like it -- literally, a mercenary "lance" for writing. Hee.)

Would a domain name like erin-------wordsmith.org turn you off as a potential client? An email addy like erin-------@erin-------wordsmith.org?

I'm worried "wordsmith" has been used a lot by similar professionals. Maybe try riffing off "editorial" or "pen" instead, or use something like:

Erin Lastname, The Last Word ...
...in writing, editing, and research.

I just heard a doctorally prepared professor say to my boss (and my boss agreed with her) that this country is willing to be accepting of all sorts of diversity of belief except Christian, and that they seriously need to consider what this means (is it the work of the devil).

It means the devil wrote the bill of rights.

Hee, x-post with Amy!

My friend who ran her own graphic design business is doing all my stylistic design for website, business cards, stationary, invoices and flyers for free, and my husband is an artist -- with the Wordslinger, I was riffing off gunslinger, with a silhouette of a bespectacled redhead blowing smoke off a pen. Too twee?

I kinda like The Last Word idea, too, though...

You know, I would love to have people who think that do an experiment: swap out their public devotional symbols and practices for those of another faith for a week and see if they still think the same thing at the end of the week.