Now that I am making an effort to update this blog on a semi-regular basis, I’d like to post more frequently about scientific writing, my work as a scientific editor, and other grammatical nerdiness.
To start, I must first note that all work-related posts come with the following disclaimer: my company’s clients and the client’s research are confidential, so identifying [...]
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Scientific Writing: Odds and Ends
On the TX
On the train. All the 8:23 regulars are here. Strangers on a commuter train.
Yesterday was crazy busy at work. I don’t fully understand the seasonal ups and downs of the scientific editing business, but right now, we are swamped. I really need to speed up my editing, but of course the trick is [...]
Editing
I haven’t updated in a while, because frankly, I stare at a computer all day at work typing and am trying to do less of it at home.
The new job is going well. I’m learning a lot of nifty little editing tricks, useful phrases, and whatnot. Here are some of the things [...]
Staring at a Computer All Day
It is hard to sit at work looking at a monitor all day. And in some
ways it is harder when I have less work to do. When I’m being
productive, I look at pieces of paper, make phone calls, type in MS
Word, and go back and forth to the printer. On days like [...]
Work Stuff and My New Manbag
The new job seems to be going ok. I still need to get the hang of some of the work, i.e., I need to edit a little faster and catch more of the mistakes the first pass through the paper, but hopefully I’m gradually improving. On Friday, I did a pretty cool physics [...]
First Day
Today was my first day at Small Scientific Editing Company.
It went pretty well, though it was super busy. I spent most of the day working on a math paper, which was fairly rough going since I’m not great at math. Lots of the terms and stuff were things about which I had a [...]
Winter vacation is here, finally
I have been waiting forever for a real vacation. Sure I had a lot of time off during my job troubles last year and earlier this year, but I never could enjoy them. Even my times off on golden week and obon were quite busy and tiring. Well thankfully I’ve finally begun what I can [...]
I’m so tired.
No more all night editing sessions for me (well, actually until 4:30a.m). Hopefully the paper I was working on turned out ok, but today I was a wreck. I had to do 3 lessons that I wasn’t well prepared for because of schedule changes; the classes had been cancelled for the running competition that got [...]
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