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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-25-08 11:05 PM
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I'm proofreading papers for someone I'm not getting along with...yay!
Estranged friend...I can't watch potentially good academic papers go bad. He'll never get them published in the state they're currently in.

He should pay me. :P

Eh, it's good exercise while I'm out of school. :)
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Tuesday Afternoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-25-08 11:24 PM
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1. temptation --
:evilgrin:
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-25-08 11:26 PM
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3. Nah, I'm academically pure...
I like to see good work get published, even if it needs some rehab.

O8)
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Tuesday Afternoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-25-08 11:41 PM
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13. hmmm --
not quite the "evil" one you claim to be..eh ;) :D

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=post&forum=105&topic_id=7864743&mesg_id=7864890
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-25-08 11:26 PM
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2. Keep that mind sharp, girlfriend.
'Tis better than sodoku (sp?).
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-25-08 11:28 PM
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5. I'm actually really good at Sudoku, but
I only do it during boring classes when I don't have to pay attention. :)

I've been in a funk for a few weeks, and I need to snap out of it. I've just been doing nothing and knitting...Time to get back in the saddle, or something.

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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-25-08 11:30 PM
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7. No, seriously
For example (on a personal note), I've been processing claims and doing underwriting for the last couple weeks. Really woke my senses back up for a part of my industry I don't normally touch. I'm really happy for it.

Gotta keep that mind working.
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Starbucks Anarchist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-25-08 11:27 PM
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4. I just did the same for a neighbor.
Although I do get along with her. ;)

She's a professor, and she always asks me to proofread her papers, since English is not her first language. She offered to take me out for sushi this weekend, but it seems like a small return on the work I did.

:rofl:
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-25-08 11:29 PM
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6. Nice
:thumbsup:

This person's first language is English, you just wouldn't know it. Smart as a whip, just not a terribly good writer, technically speaking. Track Changes is leaving a swath of red.

:D
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Starbucks Anarchist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-25-08 11:31 PM
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8. It's not full of "text-speak," is it?
:scared:
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-25-08 11:35 PM
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9. It's just...Full of unnecessary words and phrases and has a distinct
overuse of words like "massive" and "very". x(
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Starbucks Anarchist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-25-08 11:37 PM
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10. At least it's not Chuggo.
:P
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-25-08 11:38 PM
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11. But, Chuggo would make me giggle...
He defines awesomely bad and awesome. :D
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Starbucks Anarchist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-25-08 11:40 PM
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12. Come on, fuck a guy!
Wait, wasn't that what he was saying? :rofl:
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tjwmason Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-26-08 03:50 AM
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14. Massive in an academic text?
:scared:

Does it describe economic theories as cool as well?
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-26-08 12:40 PM
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15. Hehe, of course you understand...
:rofl:
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