I may never sit at my desk again.

[apocalypsos]

-- So, yeah, from the sounds of things they're going to make us nest (as in, sit out on the floor with the rest of the reps and answer phones) for a week after training ends. I don't want to spend an entire week on the phones, for fuck's sake. I didn't even want to take this stupid training anyway. *grumbles*

-- Oh, I discovered part of the reason I've been a stone-cold bitch since last night when I went to work today. Ugh, gotta remember to pay better attention to the date, you guys, seriously.

-- I'm three weeks away from posting my Big Bang. Huh.

-- I have a job application for the place I used to work at right after I got out of college open in a tab. God only knows why. I doubt they'll pay as much as the job I currently have and it's a factory, but on the other hand it's eight hour shifts on weekdays, it's only ten minutes away, they have tuition reimbursement, and no phones. I quit because they kept making me work in this basement room all by myself that wasn't heated in the wintertime so I kept going home sick, but you can clearly see that they've remodeled that particular room and turned it into a really nice break room when you drive past. I don't even know.

-- So you know what helps me edit better? Reading the chapters aloud. Which is nice and all, except I've been trying to edit at work. Yeah, I may just save them for when I'm home, all things considered.

Comments

[svilleficrecs.livejournal.com]

I just recommended this program a few posts up my flist for insomnia, but I use it for this too (editing). http://www.nextup.com/download.html Text Aloud, a fairly decent text-to-speech program with decent sentence level rise-and-fall of tone. It has the occasional lolarious pronunciation, but I find that popping my fic into it, then scanning down the text as it gets read to me accomplishes much of what reading it aloud to myself does (only you could use headphones at, say, work). Part of the plus is that, because of the sentence level cadence, if your phrasing is awkward, the computer is going to read it extra awkwardly and it'll be immediately apparent. There's a bit of a curve in terms of getting used to the slightly robotic voice, but again, there, I see that as kind of an advantage. If your sentences work on their own (flow wise) as read by the computer, you know they're solid and snappy.

[soundingsea.livejournal.com]

They call that "nesting"? To me, nesting is something else entirely! Like, home remodeling and decor and stuff.