"Two broken tigers on fire in the night..."

[greygirlbeast]

Please do comment; I'll be here all damn day

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[sovay]

It seems that all my family and friends in Birmingham are safe.

I am glad to hear it.

Also, it seems that the release date on the book has been moved from January 2012 to September 30, 2011. I had no idea.

Would you like me to help with this proofreading also? I am serious.

A book trailer and a still photography project. It's all fairly fucking awesome.

Damn. I don't think I'm suitable for any of the casting, but I approve immensely of these concepts.

[greygirlbeast]

Would you like me to help with this proofreading also? I am serious.

Thanks. We'll see, once the actual page proofs arrive.

[sovay]

We'll see, once the actual page proofs arrive.

No problem. With any luck, it will be mostly unnecessary.

[greygirlbeast]

With any luck, it will be mostly unnecessary.

Keeping my fingers crossed.

965,432 individual characters

[tsarina]

So many characters. That's like my week of work, since I go through 180,000 per shift. Sadly, nothing I'm reading is as great.

Re: 965,432 individual characters

[greygirlbeast]

That's like my week of work, since I go through 180,000 per shift.

Can I ask what sort of shift?

Re: 965,432 individual characters

[tsarina]

I get batch assignments, 180,000 characters at a time and ostensibly about 4 hours of work. (Though usually it takes me less.) They are product reviews, questions about products, answers to those questions, stories about products, comments about other reviews of products, user IDs and the like. I read through them all and assign them codes based on all kinds of things like whether there's profanity or product suggestions or a million other things. I get all kinds of stuff, since we have over a thousand clients these days. (Essentially the company I work for manages the ratings & reviews on various websites for retailers and manufacturers

Re: 965,432 individual characters

[greygirlbeast]

It's a really weird part time job.

I think you just introduced me to an entirely alien world.

[strange_selkie]

Right down 280. Crap I hope no one was driving into it. :(

[greygirlbeast]

Right down 280. Crap I hope no one was driving into it.

I expect many were.

[strange_selkie]

I do not know why they build broad, flat stretches of road like that -- perhaps they were tired of the Red Mountain Expwy being the tornado-sucker.

:(

[jdack]

I had been paying so little attention to the world at large the last few days I didn't even know what parts of the south were getting hit.

Then someone mentions Tennessee and I about have a panic attack since a sort of ex of mine lives there. Funnily enough while I'm scanning twitter to see if she's posted, she uploads a photo of a tree that was apparently flung at warp speed into the roof of her front porch.

Frightening shit.

[greygirlbeast]

Frightening shit.

Yeah.

a sort of ex

I have a few of those.

[seph_ski]

The tornado warnings that started around Dallas, TX extended all the way up to just a couple counties shy of me last night. I was up til well after 4am listening to the howling wind pushing into my house so hard the walls and floors were popping and creaking. Even with the weather radio on standby, I just couldn't sleep last night. We had tornadoes tear a path of devastation just four miles south of us last year, and there had been no warnings or sirens that time, so I don't really feel like I can rely on those things now. I hate tornadoes, and tornadoes after dark are especially terrifying. When I got up this morning and saw the damage to the southern states, I was sick.

On a -much- better note, I'm very excited about the book trailer. I can't wait to see it.

[greygirlbeast]

I hate tornadoes, and tornadoes after dark are especially terrifying.

This was a frequent reality of my childhood.