Suela, I am sorry that you keep getting endlessly jerked around by your job. And the dog has shitty timing.

Allyson, you are in my thoughts. Hope you are getting what you need.

I have managed to finish the minecraft cake.

[link]

And tomorrow, I get to jump in a frozen lake! But we have raised over $1k for Special Olympics! There will be funny photos later.

OMG that is super cool.

I see what you did there.

In terms of the standing desk: I tried it with cardboard boxes first to make sure it works for me. What you don't want to do is have your work spend money on this and then discover 2.5 hours later it does not work for you.

One of the judges I appear in front of stands on the days we do lots lot hearings. She seems to like it and commented once that it helps with all the reaching around she does. She is waiting forthe court to buy a podium but at the moment uses two empty upside down paper boxes to hold her files and stuff

I've thought about going to a standing desk, mostly because fitbit tells me I spend all day sitting around. Which is true, except for when it's not.

I'm happy today, just in a minor good mood, but the SO is cranky sick. He's hit the stage where he believes he should be over it, but isn't. He thinks he now has a sinus infection. So he should probably go in and get antibios. But will he? Doubtful.

Editorial distress call, extremely minor subdivision:

If one is proofing a text in which one character speaks in a regional accent with various dropped initial sounds (like 'im for him), which way does the abbreviating apostrophe go? The text in question is wibbling all over the place and I want to make it both consistent and consistently right, but it's such a weird little issue that I can't hit on the right terms to even find the question, let alone an answer. And, annoyingly, I can't spot any books on our shelves that would give me some clear examples in print, and I keep getting bounced around online to websites where all the text and punctuation smooth and simple and sans serif.

(My instinct is that it should point toward the missing letter, but I'm not gonna base 350 pages of changes on instinct alone.)

Help?

(My instinct is that it should point toward the missing letter, but I'm not gonna base 350 pages of changes on instinct alone.)

My instinct would be the same, otherwise it would look like the beginning of a quote.

That would be my instinct, too, but I am no professional.

I couldn't wake all the way up until 10, and now I don't think I'll make the 11 o'clock yoga class I like. There's a 4:30 I'm scared of, but I'm getting my hair cut before that, and it seems like a waste to have her style my hair and then immediately go sweat. Bleh.

’ is an apostrophe. It should always be used to indicate missing letters.

‘ is a beginning quotation mark.

If your using an editor that has ‘smart quotes’ enabled, if you type a space then a ‘'’, it isn’t smart enough to figure out if you’re trying to start a quotation or not, so it often picks the wrong thing.