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The construction workers/window washers/whatever-they-were finished early(ish) today, only being insanely loud and disruptive until a little after lunchtime. I spent most of the day waist-deep in the big muddy, editing — or rather mostly reformatting — a manuscript, which really could not be more problematic in its formatting if it tried. No, wait, I take that back, not least because there’s a tiny part of me that’s afraid the manuscript itself may be reading this and will have its revenge before I get in tomorrow. (Not really. But yeah.) Truth is, I’ve run into worse manuscripts, messier formatting, bigger problems. But oh man, my head? It asplode. |
| Otherwise, the day was pretty uneventful. We had another birthday celebration for another co-worker — I’m seriously starting to think everyone I work with was born in June — with red velvet cake (and cupcakes) instead of cookies. It’s a tough life. And the heat continued to rise, slacking off just a little this evening when the skies opened up and it poured rain. But, seriously, when you start talking about the weather, and it’s not even particularly interesting weather… |  |