I found this note on my keyboard when I got to work this morning. “Happy One Year!” everyone called from their offices where, at oh, 9:15 or so, they were already seated and down to business.
Visible in this photo of the wall beside my desk is a chart of copy-editing marks and meanings. I have annotated it to include ?!?! which is the unofficial symbol for “needs so much work, I don’t even know where to begin.” Also, while wt in a circle means the wrong font has been used, wtf in a circle means (I think you know what it means). Though neither symbol is officially recognized by any style guide that I know of, they are both universally understood.
I think the purple Post-it with “sugar, sugar” written on it was a coded reminder to a now expired password. If I needed the reminder, I know I don’t remember it now, and if I can’t figure out what the code is, I doubt you’ll be able to break it. I’ve gone through a great many passwords in the last twelve months.
The blue Post-it says “Force Refresh CTRL + F5″—the keystrokes clear any data that Internet Explorer has saved and force it to access the ‘freshest’ version of a web page when it’s being lazy.
Kate Winslet is on the wall because I’m told I have “Kate Days,” when I resemble her, though nobody can pinpoint the like trait. Ariel is there because she is a redhead and a princess—the like traits are implicit.
Here is my April 2008 list:
- celebrated one full year with my company, with a job that I keep on loving
- flirted with a firefighter in uniform
- received my first wedding invitation from a Mount Holyoke friend
- took a day off just to go see August: Osage County with my mom
- a kind neighbor brought my copy of The New Yorker to my apartment after it was misdelivered two and a half blocks away
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