Thought

While reading the CPON textbook, I came across numerous typos. Typos are the most distracting thing for me when reading. I can be surrounded by little monkey children screaming and playing at my feet, and absorb what I read. But if I come across a misspelled word or poor punctuation, I lose all comprehension of the words in front of me. So here's my thought. (Actually, it's the Fiance's thought.) What if I sent the editor a chapter from the book with typos highlighted to let them know of my interest in reviewing medical literature? I could write up a nice little cover letter and tell them I am interested in editing for their publications. Does it matter that I have no editing experience (other than proofreading people's papers in high school and college?) Is my medical background and great interest enough to entice them? Would they even care?

It's something to think about anyway...

Freeeeeedom!

I am done. I am DONE! I finished reading that big purple textbook, I took my test and I passed. Thank the Lord. It was a difficult test. I usually breeze through exams, never check my work and call it a day. On this one, I marked about twenty questions to go back and look at. I hate doing that, because I invariably second-guess myself and change the answer from the original correct one to a horribly wrong one. So I did go back and review these twenty questions, but only changed maybe one answer. I get the full blow-by-blow of my answers in the mail in a few weeks.

So. What am I reading now, you ask? A very frivlous, no-brain-required, novel called "Plain Truth" by Jodi Picoult. I am five chapters into it and it's keeping my attention, though will never be an award-winner. I have read another of her novels called "My Sister's Keeper." That was an excellent book; it was very much a mirror of my working life, as it is about a young girl wih cancer. It was a great story with lots of highly researched details. That is one thing that I admire about Ms. Picoult; her attention to detail and well-researched subjects make the book more believable and less irritating to find the mistakes in content. But, then again, I am kind of a book Nazi.

Oh happy day, no more textbooks. I am a happy, happy girl.