Resisting pointless temptation

I seem to be in the sort of mood that goes off on tangents. I'm stopping myself from literalizing other people's metaphors and thereby derailing discussions in their journals.

They aren't even interesting tangents, so you're not getting them here, only this meta-note about what my brain does after a day or two of proofreading and editing eighth-grade math study guides. (This place reuses a lot of material from one book to the next, so I found myself making a minor change yesterday afternoon in a copyedit that, a day earlier, I'd looked at and said "not at PDFs": late in the process few things are worth changing, and that wasn't one of them. ["This is a parabola, not a graph of a linear equation" is worth changing, and a typo in the large-print lesson title might be.]) ←see what I mean about digression?

Resisting pointless temptation

I seem to be in the sort of mood that goes off on tangents. I'm stopping myself from literalizing other people's metaphors and thereby derailing discussions in their journals.

They aren't even interesting tangents, so you're not getting them here, only this meta-note about what my brain does after a day or two of proofreading and editing eighth-grade math study guides. (This place reuses a lot of material from one book to the next, so I found myself making a minor change yesterday afternoon in a copyedit that, a day earlier, I'd looked at and said "not at PDFs": late in the process few things are worth changing, and that wasn't one of them. ["This is a parabola, not a graph of a linear equation" is worth changing, and a typo in the large-print lesson title might be.]) ←see what I mean about digression?

Inspirational reading

In the course of the workday, I went from feeling too damp, and then too cranky, to work out, to feeling that I was cranky enough that I really needed to. It was a good workout: I did some things I hadn't done in a while, plus several of the ones that feel central these days.

[This is "inspirational reading" because threeringedmoon says she finds these posts to be a useful encouragement to her own weight-training.]

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Inspirational reading

In the course of the workday, I went from feeling too damp, and then too cranky, to work out, to feeling that I was cranky enough that I really needed to. It was a good workout: I did some things I hadn't done in a while, plus several of the ones that feel central these days.

[This is "inspirational reading" because threeringedmoon says she finds these posts to be a useful encouragement to her own weight-training.]

( the numbers and other details )