Poor Vaysh! I hope that, like me, you have next week off and a good masseuse across the road. Let us not forget the excellent chocolate tart form the local bakery that has acted as a fine restorative!
The grammatically and logically marvellous lurker -- I was SO wishing that your powers extended to the muppets whose work I was editing.
Happily I have given myself this week off for sleeping and sewing. I seem to have accomplished bugger all due to waking up at 2pm every day. And yet, I'm not that upset by this ...
No, you're a genius, one pillow AND I SMOTHER THE BAD JOURNALISTS!!!
I am so sorry you have to do this regularly, I would be a slathering homicidal maniac after a few rounds of it. I was especially outraged when some of the young kids (about 20) were all trotting off at 11 claiming they were exhausted. I'm more than twice that old and just not up to it anymore.
I was doing a paper with UTS students, who are generally completely slack bastards who do not believe in proofreading nor fact checking. I shall not hire them once they graduate! Well, three or four of them I might -- three had talent and one brought around jelly snakes.
The yellow natural jelly snakes that are banana flavoured? BEST SWEET EVER! And they were the ones she had, I told her that she should act like that in the workforce so that people would cover her back until she knew what she was doing.
Your lack of sanity made my lack of sanity awfully happy that day, but my typing ability was out the window. Drank hot milk, went to bed, got up and did it all again.
It's the downside of freelancing; every now and then you find yourself in over your head. Apparently I can actually lay out an entire short newspaper as well as edit it; I had no idea I possessed this skill until I did it. Happily, having ticked that box off, I need never do it again!
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