2.37 pm

My office is a cozy 26 degrees, according to the thermometer in here. What that translates into is that between the heat and the brilliant sunshiney day outside, I’m having difficulty getting off vacation mode and into work mode. Waking up this morning hurt, even though my alarm didn’t go off that much earlier that I was waking up over the long weekend. It’s something about having to get up and get ready, rather than choosing to do so.

2.42 pm

Thank god for Google. I’m currently looking through a UNC handout on the passive voice, since I’m rather certain that most of the sentences my boss has flagged in my current project as “passive” aren’t. Still, my mother always says that discretion is the better part of valor, which I will take in this case to mean that I should be sure about my grammar before I leap. Or something to that effect, anyway.

3.20 pm

Microsoft Word, how do I hate thee? Let me count the ways…

The thing that really gets me is that even when I know exactly what I want to do, Word is sure it knows better. Especially when what I want to do is in any way remotely connected to pagination or section breaks. On the other hand, maybe it’s just a PIBCAK issue…