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I have a new co-worker. He's at the cubicle next to me, and all I know so far is that he is tall and fairly quiet, and comes well-recommended. My boss has scheduled a meeting for Thursday morning to tell us about what she knows so far about the upcoming publishing plan.
Vaguely related to this, my other boss has encouraged me to look around for freelance copyeditors and/or proofreaders. She is collecting resumes. Geography is not much of an issue: I mentioned having a friend in Minneapolis, and was assured that the distance would not be a problem if they had the background. They do want people with relevant experience. For copyediting, that's academic publishing and/or science publishing. I suspect almost any professional proofreading experience might be sufficient to get them to look at someone for straight proofreading, though they'd prefer people who have worked on nonfiction, and again, ideally related materials. (My employer produces test prep/review materials for K-12 in math, reading, science, and social studies.) [Having had three nibbles already from the LJ posting, I will be asking my boss whether resumes go to her, or elsewhere. Update will follow.
ETA: I'm not quite ready to put this out to the whole world, so I'm screening comments: if you know me and are interested, please leave contact info with your comment.
At lunchtime, I went to the nearest optician and paid them a whopping $6 for each pair to replace the nose pads on two pairs of eyeglasses. And concluded that no, really, those spares aren't quite right. (They were ordered online; maybe transitional-style bifocals are asking too much of those services.) While they fixed the spares, I looked at some of the frames on display, but I don't think I'm going to be buying right away, in part because I have other things to deal with and in part because a little poking around in a not-very-successful attempt to find information on eyeglass prices did produce the advice to shop in December, because during Christmas-shopping season few people are buying glasses so the opticians often have sales.
After work, I went to the gym. Another long, solid workout.
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Vaguely related to this, my other boss has encouraged me to look around for freelance copyeditors and/or proofreaders. She is collecting resumes. Geography is not much of an issue: I mentioned having a friend in Minneapolis, and was assured that the distance would not be a problem if they had the background. They do want people with relevant experience. For copyediting, that's academic publishing and/or science publishing. I suspect almost any professional proofreading experience might be sufficient to get them to look at someone for straight proofreading, though they'd prefer people who have worked on nonfiction, and again, ideally related materials. (My employer produces test prep/review materials for K-12 in math, reading, science, and social studies.) [Having had three nibbles already from the LJ posting, I will be asking my boss whether resumes go to her, or elsewhere. Update will follow.
ETA: I'm not quite ready to put this out to the whole world, so I'm screening comments: if you know me and are interested, please leave contact info with your comment.
At lunchtime, I went to the nearest optician and paid them a whopping $6 for each pair to replace the nose pads on two pairs of eyeglasses. And concluded that no, really, those spares aren't quite right. (They were ordered online; maybe transitional-style bifocals are asking too much of those services.) While they fixed the spares, I looked at some of the frames on display, but I don't think I'm going to be buying right away, in part because I have other things to deal with and in part because a little poking around in a not-very-successful attempt to find information on eyeglass prices did produce the advice to shop in December, because during Christmas-shopping season few people are buying glasses so the opticians often have sales.
After work, I went to the gym. Another long, solid workout.
( numbers etc. cut for your convenience )