It goes light here because I'm kind of up to my ears in a lot of stuff. I've been editing so much my eyes hurt and it's hard to blog.
I'm hoping for a return to sanity next week.
Miss you.
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- moonrat
- I'm a recovering editorial assistant. I'm like most of my kind: impoverished coffee-and-gin survivalists, underpaid but ambitious, bitter but hopeful. Painfully self-conscious, woefully self-congratulatory, willfully self-indulgent. Yes, I'm white, but I'm trying to get over it. Accurate spelling (to the dismay of my boss) is not among my interests. So read forgivingly.
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19 comments:
We miss you too! But don't worry, we'll be here when you get back. :-)
Hmmm... treatment options for editache are still experimental, but we're having decent success with high-dose dim sum in combination with gin-based beverages.
I'll be glad to write you a doctor's note if you need one. ;)
Following along here on my google reader. Will miss your ((pppposssts)).
Did that last word go all blurry on you? That's a sign...go rest your (((eeyyeess))).
You keep editing. We'll be here, um -- you know -- writing and reading and doing all that other stuff we do when we're not goofing off.
you people know me too well.
Feel better soon!
What do you mean, you have to earn a living? Sheesh, the nerve of some people...
;o)
Good look with the editing!
OH NO!!! I need my moonrat fix...
What am I to do?....
HELP...
[grumbling]
Okay, fine. As long as you're, y'know, working. But your first post on returning, young lady, better not be one of those "Just finished reading..." numbers that drive some of us batty even on a slow week.
Editing until your eyes bleed...a true heroine.
A return to sanity?
How can one return to unfamiliar country?
I too work for a living, and you're making it very difficult to procrastinate.
Keep on truckin' Moonie.
hang in there, gin in one hand..manuscript in the other. Maybe some choclates as an antidote..heck, choclate cures ecerything. Well, almost everything, not eyeballs :) Hang in there!
Ok over at Editorial Anonymous they were talking about how Miss Snark had snarklings, Evil Editor has minions and now EA has anonymati? I can't even say it. Someone mentioned yours being Moonies.
I just want to get the official word here. I know that you have that special category for Mischief but what do you call your loyal followers? Do you agree on Moonies? I mean I do like it! And whoever doesn't like you will get several full moon risings hee hee.
Ello - If we're Moonies, do we all have to marry each other in a big football stadium?
Moonrat - Keep your chin up. Or your head down. Or whatever, you know what I mean.
And I was beginning to think my friend's grandmother took over your blog.
:-)
Good luck with edits!!
Is full on sanity where you really want to be and would you know it when you got there anyway?
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