Month: July 2012

Random 10 7-28-12

Last week. This week:

  1. “Just Like Heaven” by Katie Melua (orig. the Cure)
    Daylight licked me into shape
  2. “Sober” by Tool
    Mother Mary won’t you whisper
  3. “Bob Dylan’s Dream” by Bob Dylan
    We thought we could sit forever in fun
  4. “Look and Feel Years Younger” by Brad Sucks
    Collagen injections injected right into my mind
  5. “On the Radio” by Emmylou Harris (orig. Donna Summer), guessed by Clayton
    It must’ve fallen out of a hole in your old brown overcoat
  6. “Death Wish” by Mark Mallman
    I hear ’em talking smack about the kids today
  7. “Brilliant Mistake” by Elvis Costello, guessed by Clayton
    Where they pour Coca Cola just like vintage wine
  8. “Canaan” by Black Dub
    And the Indians sing
  9. “I Started a Blog Nobody Read” by Sprites
    What’s the story with revolving doors?
  10. “Bastards of Young” by the Replacements
    If it’s any consolation, I don’t begin to understand them

Good luck!

Another note-worthy day

We have these meetings every month — have I mentioned that this is the Year of the Meeting? — where we talk about our plans for our biggest textbooks. And it falls to the development editors to take notes at these meetings, presumably because we work exclusively on the bigger textbooks and know how to do things like listen to other people and type. We do this on a rotating basis, among the entire group, and the first meeting I was scheduled to sit in on was cancelled. So I was very politely asked the other day if I could sit in for the tail end of today’s meeting, because it was likely to run past noon, and the DE who was taking notes was in the UK and would probably like to go home at some point.

I was happy to help, not that I had any legitimate reason to refuse. Of course, the next one of these I have to do before the end of the year is on a Tuesday again…

Beyond that, just a pretty ordinary Thursday. More reviewers, more It, big storm apparently on the way. (It got very dark and cloudy here very suddenly, and it’s raining some, but the world has not yet ended, as I think was predicted.

Let there be cupcakes

I had completely forgotten the fact that, starting today, another development editor and I would be taking over running our team’s monthly cross-Atlantic meetings. Or, rather, it had somehow slipped my mind that today was today, if that makes any sense. (This whole working from home on Tuesdays can sometimes make Wednesday feel like Monday, or at least make the whole week feel a little weird.)

My counterpart in the UK had suggested she’d be providing cake, and I’d promised to pick something up for the US contingent. This, of course, got rolled into the things I’d forgotten, so I had to slink back out and pick something up. Luckily, there some pretty decent bakeries to choose from in midtown Manhattan, and I settled on an assortment of cupcakes for our little group.

I think the meeting went well. I was a little worried about having to put names to faces, which is something I’m rather exceptionally terrible at, in the notes I was taking, but it ended up being more of a free-wheeling back-and-forth conversation among us all about the pros, cons, and practicalities of getting student reviews of textbooks. It may become more of an issue next month, when I’m leading the meeting and my counterpart is taking notes, but we’ll see. We haven’t even decided what our topic of discussion for next month’s meeting will be.

After that, a pretty normal Wednesday. More searching for reviewers, more listening to It on audiobook. And somehow, just like that, the week’s half over.