Cha-Ching!

So while I made a quick trip out to the grocery for some refried beans in order to make homemade nachos with Trader Joe's Flax Chips (yummers), I left my cell phone at home. And when I got back, there was an email saying, "The check from X is here."

*SNOOPYDANCE*

"The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire. The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire. We don't need no water let the mutherfucker burn..........."

Okay, maybe you needed to live through the 80s to get that.

Regardless, hopefully I can go pick up the check tomorrow. I don't want to wait for the mail. Mama's bills are due.

*exhale*

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In other news, my non-fiction book is back from the Indexer, who wrote a whole page of editorial errors. Huh. I didn't know indexers also did editing. The client is...hmmm, how to put...rhymes with rich...? Yeah, that's it.

Usually I do one edit, send it to the author for corrections, they send it back and I proofread it. With this client? It went back and forth SIX times. And every time she sent it back, she would change MY corrections. So when I look at this list, I want to see at what point the errors occurred in the process. If I made mistakes, then I'll take responsibility, but if it wasn't me....? Honestly, it never occurred to me that something I researched and checked would be changed back to its original incorrect state. I mean there are some things like style issues that can be changed without being right or wrong, like using contractions instead of spelling out words (in an informal work). But when I check that a word is not capitalized because it is not a proper noun, but you go back in and change them all back to capitals? Why did you hire me?

And one other thing:  Editing is like any other skill. The more you do of it, the better you get. I'm wearing out a few reference books. But it's all good. I hope it makes me better.