Notes From the First Day
Too exhausted to blog. Bullets only.
- took a cab to work. spency, but it was just a first-day thing, not the beginning of a habit. made it to work just in time for …
- three hours of HR-babble. but found out about the awesome benefit of buying CTA/Metra passes through Company. the discount is minimal, but the money comes directly out of my paycheck–PRE-TAX. and then …
- began reading a 334 page style manual on which all my copy editing will rely;
- learned abbreviations for everything under the sun, including a number of periodic elements I’ve never heard of as well as every former and current country associated with the USSR/Russia;
- learned that any person born before 1922 in what is now Northern Ireland must be called “Irish,” not “Northern Irish.”
- ran an errand after work and didn’t get home till nearly 8pm. am too exhausted to even think about laying out clothes for tomorrow and packing a lunch, much less actually doing it.
- so much walking. three new blisters.
- kitties very happy to see me. and I them.
Posted 28 June 2006
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My god, reading a huge style manual. I’m jealous.
[...] – to Dan, whose comment I only just saw thanks to an overzealous spam filter: do not be filled with jealousy over my 334 page style manual, as it includes many corollaries such as “generally follow the Chicago Manual of Style in these circumstances, except when you don’t think you should,” and “Webster’s spelling preferences should be followed in these circumstances, except when they shouldn’t be.” [...]