I went into the office today, and early enough to beat the traffic. Yay.
I listened in on a conference call with four other people — Jana, in Raleigh, but in a different building than mine; David and Claire in the UK; and Ann in Rome, Italy. The meeting was from 9-10 our time, 2-3 for David and Claire, and 3-4 for Ann.
This was an “Editing for Quality” meeting, which involves a training program where you first have to listen in on an edit, then practice in a subsequent edit, and then hold your own edit.
For Claire and me, it was our first meeting, so we just listened and learned this time.
I was the first one to book club, and took our “regular” table, and there was a girl sitting at the table next to ours with a book — and she was reading it.
When Janet got there, I said, indicating the show-off: “Look at her. She’s trying to make us look bad. Let’s kill her.”
Suzanne and Sharon arrived shortly after that, and all told, two copies of Memoirs of a Geisha were present. Sharon has finished the book — and passed Janet’s copy of the book, which she had borrowed, to Suzanne. I had E-Ching’s copy with me.
I picked it up, and nonchalantly faced it toward that woman so that she could see that we read, too. [Hmmm. A little defensive, aren’t we???]
Suzanne and I had birthday cards for Sharon, as her birthday was Sunday, and I’d brought one of those “chocolate chip cookie ‘cakes,'” which turned out to be delicious — not at all dry, and doughy instead of crispy. Yum!
Before leaving, we agreed on a date for our next MSBC Night Out, which is going to be on August 26th, at Suzanne’s house.
Kevin (
zy1125) stopped by my office in the afternoon to reimburse me for his family’s breakfast a couple of Saturdays ago.
I revealed to him the name of my book, which had just occurred to me within the last hour, and I like it infinitely better than the other two I had been considering.
Today, I installed the Professional Version of Adobe, which allows me to use the markup feature (for editing and document reviews), and edit PDFs.
I tried to install the IBM Eclipse Help System, but was unsuccessful today. What I finally figured out, or decided at least, was that the hosting website was down. I will try it again on Thursday to make sure that’s what it was.
We had our STC Officers Meeting at Helios, where we nailed down a lot of things on our activities calendar for the upcoming year, and Mark (from Myra’s office) came and took our pictures for the “Meet the 2006-2007 Officers” article in my first edition of the newsletter.
Here are the ones I have to choose from:
Picture #1
Picture #2
Picture #3
Picture #4
I have already ruled this last one out, as it brings back too many painful memories of my twin, from whom I was separated at birth.
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I have already pretty much decided on which one I’m going to use, but what do you think? [If you want to vote, but aren’t a LiveJournal member, feel free to use the comment function (i.e., the Thoughts? link) to vote.]