A romantic evening awaits you in the off-world colonies

How is that Friday, the very last day in the week, was also by far my busiest?

Maybe it has something to do with the manuscript that landed in my lap, or rather my e-mail in-box, first thing this morning. I started reading through it and realized it needed more corrections — mostly typos, but some factual — than at first glance. So, aside from another project that ate into a lot of my time, I spent the day reading the book, with my red pen in hand. As I noted via Twitter, sometimes I don’t feel like I’m correcting grammar, but rather introducing it to a manuscript for the very first time. (I also realized that my life would be very different, at least in the way I think about my job and the way I do it, if I hadn’t taken that copyediting class my senior year of college.)

When I left for the day, I was about halfway through the manuscript. With luck, I’ll finish on Monday and send my corrections and queries off to the authors. It would be nice to put the book into production soon, even if at this point it’s unlikely to make the year.

And yeah, I’m fairly sure the world isn’t going to end this weekend.

This evening, after dinner, I got a fortune cookie, the one in the photograph up above. (That’s allowed even when you don’t eat Chinese food for dinner, right?) It said, “A romantic evening awaits you tonight.” So, of course, I spent the evening watching a zombie movie with friends over Twitter. Well, I had a lot of fun, even if I can’t say my feelings on 28 Weeks Later as a film are much revised from my original opinion.

Though never let it be said that zombies can’t be romantic.