January 30, 2003

masochism

Within the last two days I've volunteered to help someone create a new Information
Science program in the Netherlands (by "help" I mean "be one of the people she
bounces ideas off") and to edit a whole set of material for a four day class at
work.

Yes, I'm a masochist.

Well, it's really not that
bad. The first probably entails very little work, just an occasional opinion. (For
me, I mean; it will be an enormous amount of work for the person who has the main
responsbility.) The second was more a matter of irritation than benevolence. Bad
spelling and grammar just annoy the shit out of me, and I can't not notice
them. I'm one of those natural editor freaks, a trait I share, apparently, with
the entire Fadiman family (according to Anne Fadiman in the wonderful collection
Ex Libris, Confessions of a Common Reader -- ooh, due for a reread on that one)
and half of the LordPeter list.

Posted by dichroic at January 30, 2003 04:59 PM
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