Under the fig tree
Saturday, 11 March, 2006
This week has been busy but somehow I've managed to bypass getting sick, even though Ben is now complaining of a sore throat (which probably means he's contracted another virus). Something has been on just about every night of the week: aside from the Oscars on Monday, we had training time at church on Tuesday (Ben did an interesting seminar on the theology of music—I should blog something about that some time), we were invited out to dinner by the Lohs with some new people from church on Wednesday (and if you get invited by the Lohs, you should never refuse because Francis' cooking is on par with Stacie's), and on Friday (last night) we had dinner with my mother and Peter. I would have gone to meet up with Cathy on Thursday night but I was pretty knackered and so cancelled.
On the work front, the C.S. Lewis Today site has been down, then up again, then down again, then up again, and the guy who takes care of the server isn't 100% sure why. We are starting to get more traffic on the site, though I couldn't tell you what the stats are because we have no stat pages; it just seems like that because of the number of submission forms I've been getting. Unfortunately a lot of spam is coming through on the rego page. I just got Ben to help me fix it.
Things have been rather boring at MM. I'm working on The Daily Reading Bible Volume 7 (which caused problems because one of the Bible Briefs we were going to use only has 15 studies so I had to find some extra ones to supplement, plus it took them ages to tell me what the Romans ones were being replaced with) and The Collected Works of D. Broughton Knox Volume III (scanned, now needs editing *sigh!*). Plus, because we had to replace one of the studies in The Daily Reading Bible Volume 6, I had to go through the proofs and check it, but really someone should have told me not to do that until we got the new proofs with the replacement material added and the whole thing laid out again. So now I've gone through the whole volume twice and, even though I know I'm getting paid for it, I think it's a waste of my time and MM's and I cannot help wishing that I had something fun to work on and that people would keep remembering that I'm new and give me a bit of guidance because I haven't done certain things before.
But all these feelings may just be because I've felt so down this week. Next week hopefully I will stop feeling like a dogsbody who is only valued for her typing and checking skills, and start feeling like I am productive, efficient, skilled and doing something worthwhile in this world with what I'm doing.
This week I have also been getting pretty regular sleep and a good amount of it. Now I fall asleep almost as soon as my head hits the pillow and I don't stay awake for hours with my brain ticking over. I much prefer that.
Last night I had a dream about college, though it looked nothing like college (of course) and there were people there who aren't at college any more. It made me realise how much I miss aspects of last year and the people I no longer see.
Blinks:
A way of funding writing in the future: pitch and idea and get people to support it.
Place where you can hire play equipment for parties, etc.
How to recalibrate the home button on your iPhone.
Unsolicited manuscripts accepted by Pan Macmillan with certain conditions.
Thought Balloon is a group blog in which the writers tackle a new theme every week? month? with one-page scripts. This URL is for their Phonogram ones.
How to sew a zipper on a knitted garment.
Issues organised by tale.
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Pleased sleep is better. You are an amazing and gifted person, and what I love about you has nothing to do with your typing speed, or your checking skills, and very much to do with who you are: a creative, imaginative, energetic, highly gifted and loved creation of God, who is an enormous inspiration to me.
Hugs!
George
PS Grief over college is completely okay - and normal, if that helps.
Hey Karen
Just for a laugh, a mate of mine at Cassell Illustrated in London had a book about Dirty Harry scanned in Singapore and they didn’t check layouts before it went to repro/proofs. Every time that Dirty Harry was referred to, the scanning program had chosen the words Dirty Barry instead…always makes me laugh and remember just how far the scanning software has to come…still need for us editorial types yet!
PS I’m back in Oz at the mo - working at a desk at Allen and Unwin for my London company. Hope you stay well.
Erin xx