I never check aspects before I make plans, but almost wished I do when I realized what would be happening on this day. I'm working on a huge proofreading job - an oral history chock full of Russian nouns, people and places - and the client is adamant about keeping the tone of the non-native-English speaker's narrative. Getting him to let me delete one of the many if, ands, buts, whens, wases, wheres and such ones so on that get in the way of the sense of what's being described requires a long and detailed explanation of the reason for the deletion and infinite patience, not one of my stronger points but medication helps ha ha.
The true saving grace is that the client is a gentleman and a scholar from bygone days and we enjoy each other's company, so any struggle usually ends up with an exaggerated "whew!" from me and laughter from him as one more word bites the dust from the 600 page manuscript.
Once again I've waited far too long to write this post - it happened a week ago today and we're already three days into a new month - have completely lost interest in it and am not going to finish it. If I'd made New Year's resolutions one of them would have been to write this up every day, but fortunately I didn't.
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