I’m home briefly between classes—not long enough to nap safely, but long enough to get a not-fast-food meal. That was nice. I got a shadowkatt fix, and saw the lovely oil pastels piece she created. I miss my girl while…
School Stuff
I had one class Friday, and three yesterday. Tomorrow I’ll have four, which is going to be one hell of a day. The first course starts at 10 am. I get out at 2:15, run home to get the girl…
Any Latin Readers?
I found free online translation stuff, but the results aren’t very good. Could someone pretty please translate this quote from Catullus for me? Odi et amo: quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior Edited to add…
Ick. Requesting Help.
I’ve never, ever done this before. It’s very hard now. However, the data recovery on the hard drive is $600. I am not going to be able to finish my coursework without that data, which will mean losing my financial…
An Explanation
I’ve identified one reason that many documents produced by “technical communicators” are so unreadable. Our professors consider someone who uses “foregrounding” rather than “focusing on” in an article to be an authority.
More Feedback, Please?
One of my other assignments is to create a patient information brochure about fibromyalgia. I’ve uploaded it to my website as a PDF and would appreciate any constructive criticism you care to give me. It’s designed to be printed as…
What Do You Think?
One of the assignments for my medical communications course is to write a feature article about my chosen topic (fibromyalgia), to be submitted for publication. Feedback, please? Edit: Reworked to include some of your wonderful suggestions. Thank you 🙂
Out of Touch
I actually opened chat clients today, but can’t stay connected. We’re on day two of 50% packet loss, and the ISP tech won’t be here ’til tomorrow. Much of the stuff I do for the family requires online research and…
Priorities
Waaahhhh! We’re out of the salad dressing I like. The spinach is just old enough that it isn’t very appetizing without dressing, and the dressing curiousmay9 prefers is heavier than I like. Must pick up some raspberry vinaigrette next time…
DPaul007 is Contributing to My Delinquency
I took my computer into the kitchen, cleared the table of all distractions, and sat down with my textbooks. The first mistake was opening the blinds so I could see outside. The front yard and its squads of tree-rats is…