"with all reverence I would say / Let God do his work, we will see to ours. / Bring in the candles."

[larryhammer]

How to title every book you ever write. (via) My debut novel Citrus on Quebec Street will be followed by the disappointing sophomore effort See the Thorn Twist (with the alternate title In Leather, Lace, and Chains in the UK), the collection The Tortoise Camp, then The FORTRAN Programmers, November in Osaka, The Wisdom of Post-it Notes, and Autumnwhaaa.

I admit it: a title like How to Settle Accounts with Your Laundress will make me click though to find out what the heck it is. Spoiler: a one-act farce published in 1847.

Stuff Business People Say. Yes, it's an ad. Yes, I've heard just about every one of these in person. The main wince-worthy one they missed is "out of pocket." (via)

---L.

Subject quote from "Abraham Davenport," John Greenleaf Whittier.

Comments

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I once quit a job after they asked me to prioritize an action item on my agenda.


Complete coincidence-I got an offer from my current workplace the next day and I really didn't like working at that place-but I like to pretend that was what took me over the edge.

[larryhammer]

Heh.

[thistleingrey.livejournal.com]

I would read The FORTRAN Programmers, depending. Well, probably. (Didn't know that that was part of your portfolio, or is "portfolio" too business-speakish? (It was a bit alarming to realize the other day that "leverage" as verb is twenty years old now.))

[larryhammer]

Well, it was a summer job in a research lab -- over a couple summers -- when I was a teen. I continued using FORTRAN into grad school, where I had a minor in computational methods in physics. If it became a novel (unlikely), it's probably be a YA. Certainly there were enough mishaps, personal and professional, over those years to fill our a plot.

I usually just say CV.

---L.

[thistleingrey.livejournal.com]

YA seems a good fit.

Heh, where I work, CVs and resumes are distinct.

[larryhammer]

Yeah, well.

[sovay]

My debut novel Citrus on Quebec Street will be followed by the disappointing sophomore effort See the Thorn Twist (with the alternate title In Leather, Lace, and Chains in the UK), the collection The Tortoise Camp, then The FORTRAN Programmers, November in Osaka, The Wisdom of Post-it Notes, and Autumnwhaaa.

I would totally read a novel called Citrus on Quebec Street, See the Thorn Twist, or Autumnwhaaa. Who wouldn't want to read a novel called Autumnwhaaa, if only to find out what the hell?

[larryhammer]

:-)