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Do all the professional writers on my flist have mistful on their flist? Because y'all really ought to. She's struggling with copyedits today.

Sometimes copyedits are a simple matter of your copyeditor switching ‘Nick said’ to ‘said Nick.’ Then all you do is stare at that, wonder why she changed it and if it matters and which way looks best, and then you tear out all your hair and use the torn-out hair as a hanky to wipe your fevered brow. Simple!

Click the link for the fun of an American copyeditor dealing with Irish phrasing.

Last of the knitting podcast reviews for a while

I've run out of podcasts to review and am going to be taking a break from new ones for a while.

The last three:

She Knits started out with a series of "lessons learned" from a Shrinkyknits' first sweater, but just when I was about to spin the dial out of boredom, Shrinky said "I'm so bored with this pattern that I'd want to move on even if it were pure cashmere imported from Deep Space 9." One of us! (There was a Lord of the Rings mention later.)

Then I went to the next couple of podcasts, found them rambling, and realized I didn't like She Knits so much as Shrinkyknitter, and she doesn't appear to have a blog or podcast of her own. Pity.

Sleepy Eyes Knitting is another one of those where I find the podcast rambling, but the blog interesting. According to her podcast, there are directions for crockpot dying, among other things on there.

Stash and Burn - I may have to come back at a later date and give them more of a chance, because driving home sick from work with no energy, a headache, and trouble breathing is not a time to be entertained. But after about 5 minutes without hearing anything of interest, I dialed out.

Cast On is looking a hell of a lot better in retrospect. And now I'm taking (another) nap.