"I'd like to hear about your life."Hokay. Draw breath: born Northern Ireland, army family, school in Dorset, lived in (I think) 22 houses by age 26 and 1 thereafter, Warwick University Philosophy & Politics 2.2, celebrated 20 years of publishing-related activities last November consisting of 4 years social science publishing in London and thereafter in or about Oxford: 6 years IT journals, 2 years medical, 4 years overlapping self-employed science fiction books / law journals, 4 years technical writing and editing.
That's the basic framework. Anything else, you'll have to be more specific ... or possibly see here.
And:
"You write a lot about writing, or posting links to stuff you've found, and that's all great, but I still don't feel I know you very well. Tell me what's been on your mind today."Well, today (i.e. yesterday) was quite a normal day, spiced up by the imminence of an annual conference we hold for which various documents are required and which therefore must be approved by all relevant parties by close of business Thursday. The fact that some of these documents do not yet exist is what really adds spice to the proceedings. My job is mostly editing with a little bit of design; I have a colleague whose job is mostly design with a little bit of editing. Together we knock these things into shape. Apparently.
Then a relaxing evening of booking a car for our forthcoming Swedish trip (on avis.co.uk you can browse the models available, or on avis.se you can specify that you'd like to add an extra driver to the booking, but you can't do both on both sites), freelancing, watching a fairly dull episode yet key episode of Battlestar Galactica + The IT Crowd, and so to bed.
Next!
Fantastic! Exactly what I was hoping for. Thanks Ben :)
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