These 2 sentences mean the exact opposite, right?
"Please do not include a sentence about date of data analysis if the study was conducted 3 or more years ago."
"Please do not include a sentence about date of data analysis if the study was conducted within the last 3 years."
Because I feel like I'm going crazy here. (More editing guidelines being handed down. We were told sentence 1, and I just got feedback that I did it wrong, because sentence 2. BUT THEY'RE OPPOSITES.)
Idiots>assholes is weirdly reassuring, flea.
I don't know what to say about the other thing. Other than "how terrible!", which I will probably continue to repeat with great sincerity.
I will have to get regular biopsies, but that's better than major surgery.
I think those sentences are opposites, Teppy.
No sentences about date of data analysis! If you must reveal the Date That Must Not Be Spoken, for god's sake do it in a sentence fragment!
Yay benign!!
Teppy - total opposites and I'd take it all to mean no sentences about dates. Period. Ever.
I'd take it all to mean no sentences about dates. Period. Ever.
I'm going to laugh if there's another email tomorrow saying to go back to format #1.
I mean, I can follow rules. But I also read them literally because WORDS MEAN THINGS. You can't tell me I did rule #1 wrong by defining it as the exact opposite of what you originally said it was.
Glad to hear it, Consuela!
Never speak about dates, is what I'm getting there, Steph.
I was just having a crabby conversation at work -- apparently all of my friends in every department are burnt out today -- when everything turned around because there was Fresca in the vending machine!!!! I wonder if it's always been there and I just didn't notice?? I FLOVE FRESCA!!!
Yay benign, Consuela!
Steph, they're just screwing with you now.
I also love Fresca. And it's no-calorie, if I recall correctly.
My day is not going well. Work is a clusterfuck and I think my friend is mad at me for dropping out of her Tai Chi class. I just can't get to a class at a place and time that requires me to leave work an hour and a half early. I should have thought about the distance when I signed up, of course, and I admitted that, but mea culpa, I still can't do it. I'm probably going to be working quite late tonight as it is. Taking two hours or more off in the afternoon isn't reasonable.