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I could use a job.
Unfortunately, editing diaries on DK doesn't pay in much more than TU status because I comment so often -- since I'm not working.
But you're welcome. I live to edit.
by Brooke In Seattle on Wed Jan 16, 2008 at 01:57:11 PM PDT
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Good luck on the job hunting. The economy sure isn't helping job seekers.
I'm a geochemist who knows geography pretty well but I make a lot of little errors. I rather write quickly and clean it up later than go slowly. I get bogged down and hung up if I worry about details while I write.
"It's the planet, stupid."
by FishOutofWater on Wed Jan 16, 2008 at 02:03:14 PM PDT
THis is what I have so far:
It was a dark and stormy night...
Okay? Get back to me when you've got that done.
"Treat them with humanity. Let them have no reason to complain of our copying the brutal example of the British army."
by otto on Wed Jan 16, 2008 at 02:05:58 PM PDT
Edit my novel.
and many are not good.
Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry. F. Scott Fitzgerald, the Great Gatsby
by riverlover on Wed Jan 16, 2008 at 02:53:05 PM PDT
Hillary isn't racist, she's Rovist.
by word player on Wed Jan 16, 2008 at 03:21:27 PM PDT
Edit?! My novel!
by otto on Wed Jan 16, 2008 at 04:09:17 PM PDT
Stop the candidate wars or I'll do a bad thing...
by JVolvo on Wed Jan 16, 2008 at 06:23:04 PM PDT
Repeat 30,000 times.
Now pay me.
It is not the business of the state to help its citizens get into heaven nor to save them from hell.
by DanK Is Back on Wed Jan 16, 2008 at 04:10:30 PM PDT
It was a Snark and Normy night. Actually, they both preferred "Normy and Snark" because it had a better ring to it, like "Starsky and Hutch" or "Hannity and Colmes." But that sorta fubars the point of the story.
Anyway, it was night. And, of course, dark.
Some folks prefer a map and finding their own route. Others need someone to tell them where to go.
by sxwarren on Wed Jan 16, 2008 at 04:36:25 PM PDT
it was raining heavily. And thundering. With lightening and a chance of hail. With fog.
That is, it was stormy, too.
Truth. Justice. FreedomePluribus Media
by Timroff on Wed Jan 16, 2008 at 09:02:33 PM PDT
Doubleday! He thinks this could work with the people who buy books from Jonah Goldberg and David Frum!
Though he thinks we might have to simplify it a bit.
by sxwarren on Wed Jan 16, 2008 at 09:42:19 PM PDT
I was laughing so hard I woke up both dogs.
Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. --Will Rogers
by groggy on Wed Jan 16, 2008 at 04:50:12 PM PDT
I stood at the rail. The captain came to me. Tell me a story he said. It was a dark and stormy night. I stood at the rail. The captain came to me. Tell me a story he said. It was a dark and stormy night. I stood at the rail. The captain came to me. Tell me a story he said. It was a dark and stormy night. I stood at the rail. The captain came to me. Tell me a story he said. It was a dark and stormy night. I stood at the rail. The captain came to me. Tell me a story he said. It was a dark and stormy night.
This makes about as much sense as Mike Huckabee on mescaline. - Prodigal 2-6-2008
by Tonedevil on Wed Jan 16, 2008 at 04:58:17 PM PDT
on the Strait of Hormuz. O'Reilly was huddled over the radar, still warm coffee mug in his right hand when the first blip showed. WTF, he thought to himself. This can't be. It reminded him of the story his dad had told him about his Navy years back in the sixties.
The old man had been perched over the radar valiantly trying to stay awake and fighting off the last two match heads of China white he'd just put up his nose when the first white blip showed on the screen. Did that just drop out of my nose, he asked himself? A quick flick of a damp fingertip quickly proved him wrong. It was the fucking commies and their god-forsaken dominoes beginning to fall into place.
He spotted the reassuring blip of the C. Turner Joy cruising reassuringly beside his Maddox. Let them come closer he prayed. A cry of 'Bring it on!' reverberated in his mind.
[OK, I'm done - you take it from here..]
"He not busy being born is busy dying." R. Zimmerman
by RUKind on Wed Jan 16, 2008 at 09:18:55 PM PDT
I get it trite the first time.
"Question authority and the authorities will question you." Now more than ever! I remember when all of America was a free speech zone.
by armadillo on Wed Jan 16, 2008 at 09:31:47 PM PDT
what kind of editor are you? Ever do technical editing (software, online content, etc.)? Kinda boring, but it's a job...;>)
Email if you'd like (address in my profile).
-exme
"When Bigbad Shit come, no run scream hide. Try paint picture of it on wall. Drum to it. Sing to it. Dance to it. This give you handle on it." Kesey
by exmearden on Wed Jan 16, 2008 at 03:34:24 PM PDT
here don't we.
It's the constitution, stupid
by CTMET on Wed Jan 16, 2008 at 05:57:37 PM PDT
education)... Kossacks will have first bite :)
Every day going forward, is one spent not going back.
by Clive all hat no horse Rodeo on Wed Jan 16, 2008 at 07:26:21 PM PDT
Visit the site in my sig. We need skills like yours. Doesn't pay anything, sadly.
The History Commons needs your participation.
by Black Max on Wed Jan 16, 2008 at 03:34:36 PM PDT
But I gave a rec to those guys that did give a good tip.
It sucks being out of work. You need all the friends and help you can get.
Good luck in your search Brook.
Dana Perino is proof that appearances carry much much much more weight with this administrations than substance ever will.
by Josiah Bartlett on Wed Jan 16, 2008 at 03:54:05 PM PDT
Drop me an email, will you. Addy's in my profile. Maybe I can send some your way.
The degree to which you resist injustice is the degree to which you are free. -- Utah Phillips
by Mnemosyne on Wed Jan 16, 2008 at 05:43:23 PM PDT
I'm a freelance writer with a decent resume, IMO - a few major outlets and such - and I need to pick up more work as I have taken a leave from my day job to finally finish my degree (16 year plan, thank you).
Desperate for just about anything, really. :-)
by baronzito on Wed Jan 16, 2008 at 08:26:51 PM PDT
wide narrow
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