Yeah, but having met a lot of PhDs...how many of them are actually good editors? I'm guessing vanishingly few.

Working around PhDs all the time, (and being one myself), I can attest to this.

Tep, I understand where you are coming from. I think the proposed company is cutting off their noses to spite their faces if they don't look at the big picture, but what do I know?

The position isn't just a punctuation-and-grammar editing position; it's content-based as well, which is why they want PhDs.

How big a niche is that? And obviously you are better at editing pharma content than, say, Amy, who's perfectly good at editing English--hmm, I don't even know what scale to use for the question, but how do you rate yourself in terms of how much you do get and how much pharmaceutical stuff specifically you can edit?

I have no idea how big a niche it is. As for how I'd rate myself -- I can edit moderately complicated pharmaceutical stuff, but where I get hamstrung is with statistical analysis and pharmacokinetics and such. For example, I know what bioavailability is, and I know general concepts like bioavailability is affected by certain foods, other drugs, renal failure, etc. But I have difficulty with the actual statistics (or statistics in any other area of pharmacy, actually). Which is emphatically not the same as "tee hee, I'm so BAD at math!"

Total tangent here, but your "tee hee, I'm so BAD at math!" quote reminded me of something. My friend K was in a bad car accident years ago and she lost her memory. She has regained most of it, but there are still gaps. She just started taking some college courses and when called up to the board to do a math problem, she discovered she is going to have to relearn the times table. Having easy access to a calculator on her phone, she hadn't realized she can't automatically call up 7 x 7.

So odd that she has no problems with the algebraic logic, but the simple multiplication is another matter.

Memory loss is a weird thing -- like, why would your brain lose the times tables but be okay with algebra? Neurobiology fascinates me.

I accomplished a LOT in the last few hours -- went to the bank, went to the post office to return 2 pairs of potential wedding shoes to Zappos (bless their free returns), went to the mall to order favors for the wedding* (because my dad was unexpectedly generous, guests are getting the little 2-piece Godiva chocolate box), went to Staples for more printer ink, went to Barnes & Noble to get the kids' book that's one of the wedding readings, and went to Trader Joe's (who now has gluten-free beer, woot!).

It's 90 degrees, and I am spent. Geez. Gotta do dishes now and rustle up some dinner.

*(Okay, and a creme brulee truffle for me.)

Go Teppy!!!! I take it your head is better?

I am hungry, and have no food, but don't want to get dressed and leave the house because I am LAZY.

Also, trying to convince myself to keep working rather than refreshing the internet hoping there will be new exciting things. Mostly failing, because the training I'm trying to do keeps freezing.

Go Teppy!!!! I take it your head is better?

My head seems basically better. I keep getting a flutter here and here behind my cheekbone, like "Oh, I can still fuck you up if I want, missy, so you'd better behave," but then it doesn't escalate. So far, so good.

I'm kind of hungry, but the heat really makes me nauseous, so I'm not sure that I can eat anything. Plus I don't have much food in the house. And I'm tired. If I get hungrier, I can try an English muffin, I guess.

No more work today. Putting away the work computer. Until tomorrow. Gah.

Is it too early to crawl in bed?

It has been floating around 100 in Burbank all week with humidity around 50% and we are outside installing Halloween Horror Nights. It was 85 last night at 2 AM driving home. Not on weather. Not on.