quotidian: work, food, gym

I have a new manuscript on my desk. Well, new to me. As with most of what my company does, pieces of it are recycled from other books. (We own the copyrights, and this generally means, say, taking something from a book designed for Florida and reusing it in one for Georgia or Ohio. [1]) About 4:15 today, I discovered that a perfectly good lesson from a Florida book had been recycled in its entirety as lesson 9 of my manuscript. This is only a problem because I discovered it in looking at that Florida book to try to find some replacement material, because about half of the lesson in question was the second half of lesson 4 of my manuscript. I didn't get a chance to talk to my boss about it this afternoon--she was busy and then gone for the day--so I made several notes and went on to the next bit.

Lunch was a nice lamb shank from a place near my office, one of their daily pre-cooked options, which I had with roast potatoes and roast carrots, and a challah roll I'd brought with me. They were a bit extravagant in describing it as cassoulet, but it did have nice white beans, and it was quite tasty.

I went to the gym after work. Still shortening the workouts a bit, but I hope I'm getting back into the pattern of two every week.
( gym numbers )

[1] Yes, the requirements for large amounts of testing are national, but each state has its own, slightly different standards. Sometimes more than slightly different. That's most noticeable in social studies, but it turns up in math, science, and I expect language arts. Also, some examples refer to local geography, flora, and fauna, and oddments like state fossils.

quotidian: work, food, gym

I have a new manuscript on my desk. Well, new to me. As with most of what my company does, pieces of it are recycled from other books. (We own the copyrights, and this generally means, say, taking something from a book designed for Florida and reusing it in one for Georgia or Ohio. [1]) About 4:15 today, I discovered that a perfectly good lesson from a Florida book had been recycled in its entirety as lesson 9 of my manuscript. This is only a problem because I discovered it in looking at that Florida book to try to find some replacement material, because about half of the lesson in question was the second half of lesson 4 of my manuscript. I didn't get a chance to talk to my boss about it this afternoon--she was busy and then gone for the day--so I made several notes and went on to the next bit.

Lunch was a nice lamb shank from a place near my office, one of their daily pre-cooked options, which I had with roast potatoes and roast carrots, and a challah roll I'd brought with me. They were a bit extravagant in describing it as cassoulet, but it did have nice white beans, and it was quite tasty.

I went to the gym after work. Still shortening the workouts a bit, but I hope I'm getting back into the pattern of two every week.
( gym numbers )

[1] Yes, the requirements for large amounts of testing are national, but each state has its own, slightly different standards. Sometimes more than slightly different. That's most noticeable in social studies, but it turns up in math, science, and I expect language arts. Also, some examples refer to local geography, flora, and fauna, and oddments like state fossils.

GIP

dd_b posted a batch of his photos from the Farthing Party to his website. I found some of myself that I like. This icon is made from one of them; the photo is from the Survivors' Tea Party, and was taken in front of papersky's refrigerator, though the teacup is gerisullivan's.

This isn't the only icon I made from those photos, so you may see more GIP posts soon.

GIP

dd_b posted a batch of his photos from the Farthing Party to his website. I found some of myself that I like. This icon is made from one of them; the photo is from the Survivors' Tea Party, and was taken in front of papersky's refrigerator, though the teacup is gerisullivan's.

This isn't the only icon I made from those photos, so you may see more GIP posts soon.