Pre-hiatus Update

Dear Bloggy Friends,
I must pause. Not to reflect, but to get everything else done.
We plan to close on our house on Sept. 8. Of course this has meant numerous phone calls, meetings, and appointments. We’ve got a lot of financial wrangling yet to do — buying appliances, applying for our government’s wonderful offer of $8,000, [...]

Amazing Internet Synchronicity

I’m home with a sick little girl today — major digestive disruptions (or should I say, eruptions, all over the bed and in the underwear) last night and this morning. You know an almost-five-year-old is sick when she is lying on the couch for hours looking pale and grumpy.
So of course one part of my [...]

Unsettled

(You will have to bear with me here. I have lots going on and came up with this cute little structure for the post that will not let me cut anything out! So read on, all 1,400 words, if you dare. If not, I won’t blame you — aren’t blog posts supposed to be no [...]

If It Looks Like a Duck…

I had such a different and pleasant day, I wanted to share it with all of you!
I spent the day, quite contentedly, in the guise of a college student. Our apartment building is receiving new siding, and the workmen had finally made their way to our section. Far too much random hammering and power-stapling to [...]

Soporific Jargon

Now, don’t get me wrong: I love my work. I get paid to read, and correct errors, two activities dear to my Virgo heart. And I have chosen and succeeded in the niche of scholarly book editing, so I get to read lots of interesting stuff that would never cross my path otherwise.
Once in awhile, [...]

Question for my Waldorfy Readers

And of course anyone who might have an opinion…
I’m mulling over the idea of writing something to sell as an e-book. Among the ideas I’ve had is something to do with native plants and/or animals. (I would have to stick with North America since that’s what I know, but I would love to expand it [...]

Multiple Personas

I’ve been thinking about all the different online “personas” I have, after a recent conversation over on The Third Eve’s blog.
I can think of several categories that I could organize my online personas into:
Waldorf/anthroposophy–including this blog, Yahoo groups, philosophyoffreedom.com, and others
Professional–including this blog, LinkedIn, the EFA, Monster, the Copyediting-L Listserv, and others
Social networking–Facebook, Orkut, Ning, [...]

Freelancing Pros and Cons

I’ve been reading some freelancer websites and online discussions lately, as part of my ongoing self-improvement strategy. I find that I need to look for inspiration in marketing myself, deciding on my rates, and all the myriad decisions I have to make since I am self-employed.

It’s a completely different mindset than either the corporate [...]

Random craftiness

I’m still pondering my “SCA, part 2″ post, so in the meantime I’ll share the following with you after uploading 95 photos off my camera:

Napoleona dressed herself as a little old woman the other day. Note the kerchief, and the block used as a cane.

She regularly dresses in this exact ensemble to play. Here she [...]

A Surprise Package

**Brag alert**
At lunchtime today Anthropapa brought home a smallish cardboard-wrapped package for me that had come in the mail. It was from one of the publishers I work for, which was odd because I normally only get paychecks in the mail from them, not anything that requires cardboard — all the editing is electronic.
I [...]