more work thoughts

[redbird]

It's very odd sitting at work with a proofread and catching myself thinking "I'm not a chemist, I'm a mathematician" as something else looks wrong. On that one, I just left them a note saying something like "please check this, it looks wrong because …" (and I don't remember what, though it's sitting on my desk there).

That was followed by the thought "I'm not a chemist, I'm just dating one." And then I got home, and cattitude pointed out that I may know more chemistry than whoever else looked at this first, because the writers aren't in-house. They're glad of my math and science knowledge, but they don't expect it or try to test for it on the copyediting tests.