My Officemates Are Animals
Freelancing from home certainly has its charms. My commute takes fifteen seconds (okay, it actually takes five seconds, but I don’t like to brag). I can work in sweats and a ratty t-shirt and nobody cares. I can take a Wii break whenever I need to get up and move. The best part of working [...]
Why I Edit
Last Monday was a gray, rainy, and generally icky day here in the Washington, D.C., region. I felt gray and generally icky and wondered why I ever decided to be a freelance editor. Didn’t I know I was resigning myself to a life spent stuck in front of a computer monitor, worrying about eye strain [...]
International Freelancers Day, September 24, 2010
I’m very excited about tomorrow. It’s International Freelancers Day, an online conference exclusively for, well, freelancers. In fact, International Freelancers Day offers so many sessions they won’t all fit into just one day. I’m especially looking forward to a session called “Workday Nirvana” (a place I dream of reaching … someday). I suspect lots of [...]