If you hate having your articles fact checked, you’ll enjoy this piece by Florence King:
“First, we kill all the fact checkers”
Personally, I would love to have a fact checking slave who runs both sides of the Q&A. Here’s how our days would go:
“Jen, are you sure you spelled that correctly?”
“Of course not, can you please go look it up and fix it for me?”
“Jen, you got his name wrong, too.”
“Hmm. I’m really not surprised. Could you please go sign me up for that grammar class over at the community college?”
“But Jen, that’s grammar, and this is about getting your facts right.”
“Yes, well, when you said I had this wrong, it reminded me that I just don’t know where commas and semi colons go. Please sign me up.”
“Will do.”
“Great, I’ll go get the ice cream.”
“What?”
“Well come on, you just did all that work for me, lets have some ice cream. Ben & Jerry’s Thank You ice cream.”
“Jen, Ben & Jerry’s doesn’t have a flavor called Thank You ice cream.”
“Oh stop being a fact checker for just one sec and eat some ice cream.”
Ice and and cake afternoons are a fixture in your life eh Jen?
Mmmmmmmmm… ice cream! For all we know, there is possibly a Thank You flavored Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, just as elusive as that organic strawberry flavor 🙂
PS – I’ll be your fact checker if you give me ice cream.
Don’t listen to Freesia, Jen. Everyone knows there are only 8 m’s in “Mmmmmmmm.” (Am I an expert fact checker worthy of ice cream or what?)
Since I’m moving around so much, I’ll take you both. One in each state. Hopefully I’ll know which one I’m moving to within the next 2-3 months.
Where might you be moving to? I recommend CA, although I’m biased (yay, warm weather!).
And will taxes be taken out of my ice cream salary? Will I get a refund if I file early?
Did you know ice cream was invented in the 4th century by Irish-Canadian monks in Ohio, and the recipe was posted on the internet only 3 years later?
Expert Fact Checker Extraordinaire (me)-2,
Freesia-0…
Caveat: You only get ice cream in flavors that I like and can also eat while you’re busy slaving away over my articles. 😉
As for my living arrangements. There’s not a whole lot in California that interests me unless I find a job that I can really love. OR man for that matter. But I will be living there until I can find said job. Won’t bother looking for mystery man because I’m not thrilled to end up there.
And then there’s the offer to stay in London. Who knows? Maybe I’ll want to go back between BEA (June) and the Panties release (Sept). I have been very happy and comfortable there. Lets add one more very.
Thanks for the fun chit chat, folks.