Journal

Farther From The Sky

Editing

I got extremely bored somewhere along the week and couldn’t resist going back to work again, so I’ve started on editing Bukit Merah. While doing so, I named this current version of the manuscript “Farther From The Sky”. Naming each version was a habit I picked up with The River. It’s more endearing, I guess, than a simple number or a date.

I’ve not started to go very in-depth with it. In fact, I’ve barely even started at all. I’ve mostly been glossing over it to get a feel for things, so it probably will be a while before I start going through it word by word. I’m currently hunting for this particular sentence that I spotted before I began this editing phase. I knew it was atrociously wrong, but I didn’t want to get sucked into the editing back then and left it alone. For the life of me, I can’t find it anymore. But these things happen.

It’s not exactly exciting stuff, but it’s a part of the job. At least I can hope it becomes readable by the time I’m through with it once.

How Old Am I?

My birthday is approaching. It’s not that close, but it’s not far away either. I just happened to think of it the other day and I realised then that I tend to have problems remembering my own age. I actually have to remember the current year and deduct it from my birth year, which I imagine is not something that most people do. Otherwise, I tend to overestimate. How very odd.

Service From Hankyu

This customer service story… is pretty incredible. [via Kotaku]

Counter Culture

“Counter Culture: The American Coffee Shop Waitress” is a book by Candacy A. Taylor about “lifers”—career diner waitresses. The author, who worked for close to a decade as a waitress herself, interviewed fifty-nine waitresses in forty-three cities across the country. All of the waitresses were fifty and older (many of them were in their seventies) and all of them had worked in diners for at least twenty years.

Certainly sounds quite interesting, and here’s a brief photo essay (from which I stole that description). [via The Book Bench]

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