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All us orphans
May. 17th, 2005 02:50 pmI felt sorry for myself yesterday. Sick kitties all weekend; Anya went to the regular vet Saturday, and she had a new kind of worms. I think she is determined to try them all. Then she went to the 24-hour vet Sunday because when I got up it looked like she was drooling, and despite my efforts to keep everything bad away from her, I thought she might have eaten something bad.
Later I realized she wasn't drooling, she just had such a runny nose that it was dripping everywhere. :-( I wish my cats could blow their noses! Spike has a cold too, and has been the most pitiful, so he went to the vet yesterday. Now he gets three kinds of medicine (decongestant, antibiotic, eye drops), and all the littles get lysine to help them get better.
Everyone was doing much better this morning. But yesterday, after three vet trips in three days, and after changing the litter and scrubbing all the litter boxes (because you need to after deworming), I heaved the Biggest Sigh and thought I wish I had a partner-type person to help me with all of this.
Today I just finished making extensive and stupidly-annotated corrections to 14 chapters. The person marking up the edits is...not at ease with Acrobat, let's say.
By "not at ease with," I mean something a great deal more like "Does not understand the concept of." When you highlight text in Acrobat, it automagically creates a little sticky note for you to type in. That little sticky note is forever linked to the highlighted text. They're life partners. Through the magic of this bond, if you are looking at the note that says "change this to 'nevermore'," you know what it refers to because the note's little partner text is selected! It is easy! Does this editor use Acrobat this way?
No. A really, really big no. She highlights words individually. Then she takes the little not-attached-to-a-highlight note-making thing and clicks with it all willy-nilly. Her notes and highlights are orphans. They do not have life partners. They don't go with anything. They are SAD. There are a billion annotations when you view the comments pane. All empty and SAD SAD SAD.
This is why I put a note on my door that says Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch'entrate. But it should really be on the editor's door, because that is where Acrobat sticky notes go to DIE.
Later I realized she wasn't drooling, she just had such a runny nose that it was dripping everywhere. :-( I wish my cats could blow their noses! Spike has a cold too, and has been the most pitiful, so he went to the vet yesterday. Now he gets three kinds of medicine (decongestant, antibiotic, eye drops), and all the littles get lysine to help them get better.
Everyone was doing much better this morning. But yesterday, after three vet trips in three days, and after changing the litter and scrubbing all the litter boxes (because you need to after deworming), I heaved the Biggest Sigh and thought I wish I had a partner-type person to help me with all of this.
Today I just finished making extensive and stupidly-annotated corrections to 14 chapters. The person marking up the edits is...not at ease with Acrobat, let's say.
By "not at ease with," I mean something a great deal more like "Does not understand the concept of." When you highlight text in Acrobat, it automagically creates a little sticky note for you to type in. That little sticky note is forever linked to the highlighted text. They're life partners. Through the magic of this bond, if you are looking at the note that says "change this to 'nevermore'," you know what it refers to because the note's little partner text is selected! It is easy! Does this editor use Acrobat this way?
No. A really, really big no. She highlights words individually. Then she takes the little not-attached-to-a-highlight note-making thing and clicks with it all willy-nilly. Her notes and highlights are orphans. They do not have life partners. They don't go with anything. They are SAD. There are a billion annotations when you view the comments pane. All empty and SAD SAD SAD.
This is why I put a note on my door that says Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch'entrate. But it should really be on the editor's door, because that is where Acrobat sticky notes go to DIE.
