. . . that this site is not banned in China. Which of course gives me something to aspire to.

In other news, I've become awfully interested in making money. Actually, I'm doing so. I just don't have it yet, due to the vagaries of the billing cycle.

According to my calculations, I could live perfectly decently on 20 hours a week, if I billed at my top rate.

Something to be said for working for larger entities, at that.

Another copyeditor told me recently that the world had lost "all interest in perfection." It's gone beyond that: the world appears—to the average English major, at least—to have lost all interest in excellence. At least, most smaller magazines would rather put up with typos, stylistic errors and prose that simply doesn't make sense, when the alternative is paying someone a decent amount of money to check it over.

So I continue to work on my crime books, and I continue to learn book-keeping. For knowledge is rarely a liability in this world.

Even in China.

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