Mission accomplished

I have tea--both good loose Assam and some Ceylon breakfast tea bags. I have been to the bank. I even have dried herbs and citrus peel, and some tomato paste (from the Italian pork store on Bleecker near Aphrodisia).

No gym, because I was feeling tired by the time I got to the second tea store. But I have walked around on a brisk afternoon, which is also exercise.

Mission accomplished

I have tea--both good loose Assam and some Ceylon breakfast tea bags. I have been to the bank. I even have dried herbs and citrus peel, and some tomato paste (from the Italian pork store on Bleecker near Aphrodisia).

No gym, because I was feeling tired by the time I got to the second tea store. But I have walked around on a brisk afternoon, which is also exercise.

It's not my article

I'm not thrilled with this manuscript, but (a) it's not my article, I'm the copyeditor, not one of the authors; (b) it's not horrible, it just doesn't sing; and (c) I suspect that what it needs is beyond the scope of copyediting.

There's also the hopeful possibility that (d) the tables, which I'm not responsible for, address some of the problems, or that (e) the authors are actually working on the additional research that they conclude by calling for.

However, (f) I continue to be amazed at how often people who aren't being paid for their writing at all produce prose that could be justified only if they were being paid by the word (or the character, given the tendency to use not only too many words, but unnecessarily long ones).

Yes, I realize that (g) this LiveJournal entry probably doesn't sing either.

It's not my article

I'm not thrilled with this manuscript, but (a) it's not my article, I'm the copyeditor, not one of the authors; (b) it's not horrible, it just doesn't sing; and (c) I suspect that what it needs is beyond the scope of copyediting.

There's also the hopeful possibility that (d) the tables, which I'm not responsible for, address some of the problems, or that (e) the authors are actually working on the additional research that they conclude by calling for.

However, (f) I continue to be amazed at how often people who aren't being paid for their writing at all produce prose that could be justified only if they were being paid by the word (or the character, given the tendency to use not only too many words, but unnecessarily long ones).

Yes, I realize that (g) this LiveJournal entry probably doesn't sing either.