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Finish Copyediting or Update about the Weekend?
guess it's going to be an update. then the copyediting, and then I may budge from my desk and make dinner ( Read more... ) -
Great
LJ won't let me post comments, in either my own journal or other journals. is there someone to e-mail? I am not seeing a tech support link or anything like that. UGH. -
A New Discovery
ZERO MOTIVATION: a film about a group of young women stuck at an IDF base somewhere in the dessert, to put in their two years of military service. A movie about boredom and motivation and happenstance. Cute actors. I could barely make out any Hebrew, which made me sad. There’s also a “Russian” character, and I was surprised that Eric caught on ( Read more... ) -
Theater
Last Thursday I went to see Rozenstein and Guildenstern Are Dead at the Folgers Shakespear Library theater. Partly, I really wanted to check out the theater (it’s so close to us) and partly I was curious about the play. Did not know anything about it, pretty much, and it felt like a gap in cultural knowledge. Of course, I could have watched the ( Read more... ) -
A True Story (I'm Finally Brave Enough to Do Dialogue)
I turn around and there’s Vika, hanging off the handle of the massive refrigerator (built in, but still ( Read more... ) -
Dacha
My mom’s father was a turner, or a machinist, who spent most of his life working at the Luch Footwear Factory in Minsk. According to family lore, he started working at ten, to help support his family, and had to stand on top of a box to reach the machinery. I have no idea if this is actually true; this would have been sometime around 1929.
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I Think...
one of these days, i'm going to severely trim back my friends list. if you want to continue reading, let me know. if you find this message once i'm done trimming, i can always add you back. no hard feelings. i just don't want this to be accessible to a whole lot of people. :) -
Gripes
i'm done with the diet book, EXCEPT for 100 pages of recipes, and OMG this person can't be consistent, and i don't know how much work the copyeditor did (it was done on-screen and they didn't send me the redlines), but there is still so much to do. and this CE should not have been assigned to edit recipes, to begin with. her experience lies in ( Read more... )