Time Flies

Woo - I can't believe it's been 10 days already since I posted here!  This is always a busy time of year for me so the days seem to whiz by.  I'm going to try to post more often, especially as Norovember sign up is coming later this week.  I thought I'd get it started earlier so people would have a better chance to get in before the month is over. 

I'm currently knitting Jonna, from Nora Gaughan's first book of patterns for Berroco.  Yes, all that k4p4 ribbing is boring, but it's mindless and that comes in handy when the new television season is starting!  Not that I watch anything other than Heroes, the NBC Thursday night lineup, and Numb3rs on Friday, but when I do pay attention to what's on TV, I don't want to have to regularly consult a pattern.

Let's see - what else is on my mind?  

Bad writing.  I do the occasional fragrance review for an online magazine.  There's a new writer on the block who gets several features every issue.  I would have no problem with that, except that said "writer" is horrible. While her ideas might be good, her grammar is not.  She'll use both single and double quotations in the same paragraph - incorrectly. (What's with this whole craze of using single quotations when doubles are the standard?  Too damn lazy to hit the shift key?  If you live in the UK you have an excuse, but not if you're from the US.  I see it everywhere, even here at work, particularly used by a person who wrote a chapter on grammar use for our in-house manual.  She copied it out of the APA manual and probably didn't bother reading it as she did so.)  And this "writer" doesn't know how to use a comma properly, either.  Ack, look at this mess:

Brushstrokes of Black Currant, Mandarin and Bergamot are layered with such delicacy over sparkling Aldehydes. Plum Blossom and, Jasmine Tea, bring the fragrance of Japanese Cherry Blossom to the forefront; fine strokes of Bamboo and Dossinia orchid are accented by Oak, and Oud which cast their sepia and grey incense hues over the ochre and indigo colors of Tonka and Orris.

"Plum Blossom and, Jasmine Tea?"  "Oud which?"   (We won't even go into the gagging tweeness of the description itself.) Holy crap!  And the magazine specifically states that every contributor must proofread his or her own submissions.  I guess if you don't know what you're doing, you don't know that it's wrong, huh?

She's apparently been getting accolades for her writing, which strikes me as both funny and sad.

What else? 

Oh tons, but I'll save other rantings for a future post. :)