Monday, August 24, 2009

Annoying Things my Copy editors do-

-Write paragraphs on corrections twice as large as the paragraph that I wrote.
-Use poor sentence structure to criticize my sentence structure- "Your use of the same word for two sentence in a row is unnecessary right, that's a bit redundant, correct?"
-Give me perfectly contradictory advice. I had two Copy Editors do that today. I swear it looks like they planned it out. One wrote "You don't need two steps for this, just write "Download and Install." So, I thought, "Oh OK" and I wrote "Download and Install" on my next assignment. The next copy editor writes a huge "HOW?" next to that step. So I growl and write it out in multiple steps again.

Repeat until sufficiently angry. It's too bad I don't work with them in person. I could have them duel it out to the death to decide who's right. That would be awesome.

Sunday, August 23, 2009

I feel the urge to make fun of personal ads on the internet. You know, the profiles that are all exactly the same. So i decided to write one of my own, by taking one I happened to see online, and writing it's exact opposite. This would be this person in bizarro world.

So, for your viewing pleasure-

The anti profile:


Name: Not Susan
Self Summary: I'm pretty co-dependent and do a lot of things not on my own, but instead with my co-dependent friends in tow. I love not traveling, not doing yoda and not "hanging out". I never hang with my friends in "casual settings". I hate going to the theatre. I would hate nothing more than to bake/cook more.

I am cruel, never sarcastic, and I am very protective of my "beating up my friends" time.

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Books/music/etc.

I never read books and I hate reading. There's now way i would be caught dead watching insipid reality shows or TV programs about "teenagers" who are in their late thirties.
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A typical Friday Night:

I have a typical friday night. Not like everyone else in God's green earth who answers this question with "I don't have one of those, tee hee, i can stay in or go out with ease!" My typical friday night does not include "taking it easy", "maybe seeing a movie" or "Just hanging out." My typical friday night involves shunning my friends, burning down movie theatres and taking everything HARD.

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You should message me if:

You are an unforgivably cruel, freakishly abnormal girl looking for the same, or if you think we could have some horrible, soul-crushing conversations.

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Fin
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Eh, not my best, but some of it did amuse me. Maybe I'll get a better idea later and I can rework it.