I know times move quickly, but really! My dictionary appears to be out of date. My parents gave it to me at the beginning of my high school graduating year. I just tried to look up “web site” to see if it’s a hyphenated compound word or two nouns, and my dictionary doesn’t list it. It dates from 1987.

This helps me not at all in my quest as I edit.

Note to self: buy updated dictionary.

Argh. Just reread my post on that editing job, did the math, and realised that I have been in retail for eleven years.

It’s a wonder I’m not institutionalised.

(That is, “placed in an institution”, not “made established”.)

Someone save me.

I love reading other people’s blogs. When I read blogs of people I know personally, I can hear their voices. Like Ceri, for instance – I can hear her voice perfectly. Other blogs I read, those blogs written by people I’ve never met in my life, like Kat’s, are blogs where I get to imagine a voice speaking the post aloud. I have fun doing it. It’s so interesting to see how a personality can leap out of someone’s writing style and present you with a mental image of who the author is. Nine times out of ten, you’ll never meet the person so you’ll never know how close you were. That tenth time, though, you’re either validated in knowing they’re just like you imagined them, or completely thrown by how off you were! Ah, the anonymity of the Internet, where you can pretend to be someone else entirely…