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(Lost fans may enjoy trying to figure out how that string of numbers is supposed to relate to the announcement I mentioned as being under consideration a few entries back. Or may not. I, on the other hand, may as well acknowledge that the "where" in question will be Kellyz Korner.)
Finals are next week.
Our kitchen is going to be remodeled. Rather heavily. (We had new siding put on the house the past seven days or so.)
So I may not be online much the next week or two.
There is a new issue of River Styx out now. And the cover image is, as best I can remember, a few people standing on the ground, looking waaay up at a glowingish pie floating waaay up in the sky for no apparent reason. Maybe it's supposed to be a sun pie.
Mmmm, sun pie.
At the moment, I'm composing an email discussing a set of proposed edits to a story (or rather the ones I don't agree with). My professor commented a year or two back that she figured I was such a good editor because I could visualize sentences as equations, and she's right. I never was taught to diagram a sentence--from what little I've seen, I'd make a mess--but I can sort out a sentence just fine most of the time, and it often really is like sorting out a mathematical expression. Usually the nouns are, say, quantities like 9 or pi or x (sometimes they have to be names of functions to make the parallel come out right), the verbs are multiplication (or invocations of functions), and the ands are often addition (unless actions are being listed or something). The adjectives are coefficients, of course. The parentheses are generally parentheses. And the schnozzberries are schnozzberries.
[At the moment] [,] [I] [am composing] [an email] [discussing] [a set of] [proposed] [edits] [to] [a story] [.]
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Finals are next week.
Our kitchen is going to be remodeled. Rather heavily. (We had new siding put on the house the past seven days or so.)
So I may not be online much the next week or two.
There is a new issue of River Styx out now. And the cover image is, as best I can remember, a few people standing on the ground, looking waaay up at a glowingish pie floating waaay up in the sky for no apparent reason. Maybe it's supposed to be a sun pie.
Mmmm, sun pie.
At the moment, I'm composing an email discussing a set of proposed edits to a story (or rather the ones I don't agree with). My professor commented a year or two back that she figured I was such a good editor because I could visualize sentences as equations, and she's right. I never was taught to diagram a sentence--from what little I've seen, I'd make a mess--but I can sort out a sentence just fine most of the time, and it often really is like sorting out a mathematical expression. Usually the nouns are, say, quantities like 9 or pi or x (sometimes they have to be names of functions to make the parallel come out right), the verbs are multiplication (or invocations of functions), and the ands are often addition (unless actions are being listed or something). The adjectives are coefficients, of course. The parentheses are generally parentheses. And the schnozzberries are schnozzberries.
[At the moment] [,] [I] [am composing] [an email] [discussing] [a set of] [proposed] [edits] [to] [a story] [.]
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