Failed my roll to go put the ms in the mail. The line at the post office was an hour long. Iiiiiii don’t think so. I’ll have to get over there tomrrow. Hmph.
print this bitch!
Run spell check 900 times, fix the tyops that people pointed out that spellcheck woulldn’t catch, fix the lead/led issues, looks up the words spellcheck doesn’t recognize, finish the formatting, get the good paper. Name, address, phone number, email, and wordcount on the front page. Title, byline, am I missing anything. No? No. Time to PRINT THIS BITCH OUT. (89 pages in: of course I forgot something. I forgot to make sure the header font was consistent with the body font. Dammit, dammit, dammit. But I’m not throwing out a…
childhood vaccine
I just came across this headline: “FDA approves childhood vaccine” I had no *idea* you could vaccinate against childhood. (The actual story is here; it’s actually a new combination vaccination that will let kids only have 3 shots instead of 9. But damn, that’s really not what the headline suggests.)
fwsh.
Fwsh. I want to be writing, not working. I am, unsurprisingly, wanting to work on the next Walker Papers book. :) However, much as I want to futz around with that, I have to do real work, as I have a code freeze at the end of the day. My exceedingly cool coworkers got me a $100 gift certificate to Home Depot as a housewarming gift. I told them I’d make a note, “Supplied by CHI”, on the shelves it bought. :) I wish I would stop hacking. I’ve got…
book finished
book finished. author very tired. must remember to check for consistency of missing hole/o through ms before printing.