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I went and had a giant burrito for lunch. Meh, it was ok.

Now I'm listening to Dio sing 'God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen' -- because Dio rocks.
 
I went to school, played some Glen Miller and I'm going to have spaghetti for dinner.

I suppose minus the school part it was a pretty good day.
 
One of the bad things about being on an international forum as the guy living farthest away from the International Dateline is I am always the last one to do anything.
We need a few Alaskans or Hawaiians to join.
 
Catching up:

Raccoons are mean bastards.

Is there a link t0 "unlike" the growling prom queen? And why is she singing in (I think) English? I think that one day, maybe 15 years from now, people will look back at growling metal vocals and think of them the same way we think of bad 1980s haircuts.

Foro: Smartphones rule. They do mean you are always "on call," however, no doubt about that. But in my profession that was the case even before smartphones. At least with my smartphone, I can be at my son's football game tomorrow afternoon and check emails or field calls if needed, and not have to worry that someone is unable to reach me. Which is nice. I can also be reached by clients and colleagues -- right now, in the evening -- when I just want to enjoy quiet time at home. Which can be annoying. Of course, when I don't want to be bothered, I set it down and ignore it. Easy. I think the hours may be longer, but they are easier.

Speaking of work, today I was in a windowless conference room shouting at someone for seven hours.
 
Nope. He was an adult. He was yelling at me too. Shook hands and exchanged jokes and pleasantries at the beginning and at the end. In between it was a donnybrook. It was fun. But exhausting.
 
Cornfed Hick said:
I think that one day, maybe 15 years from now, people will look back at growling metal vocals and think of them the same way we think of bad 1980s haircuts.
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Not a chance. They already lasted longer than that, than disco, than Grunge, than lots of other trends.
Because it is not a trend. It is a style that fits to a certain style of music. It started in the 1980s and it's here to stay.
 
Ariana said:
The agency I work for provides outsourcing services for a British communications company, called M2 Communications. My job is to monitor British print and electronic press, summarise the key news for the day and then write articles on various topics, depending on the industry in which different clients operate. The articles are then distributed to M2's clients in the UK, who post them on their websites.
Those here are written by me. Not my favourite topic - search engine marketing, but at least they are the easiest to show you.
http://www.m2.com/bespoke/news/
http://www.ukmarketingnetwork.co.uk/profiles/blog/list?promoted=1


I do the same for a couple of clients in the US, but the UK is my main domain. :)
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I was wondering, do you also write commentaries or are you too low on the career ladder for that/or not interested in that sort of thing?
 
I don't. It's just that we don't do this. We only provide news and we are required to be strictly factual. At first, when I started working here, my editor used to freak out over modal verbs, because they might change the facts. It was like an interrogation: "How did you know that? What's your source? Who said that? Where did you see this?" :lol: Sticking to facts and avoiding any form of speculation is rule number one.That's why I always feel slightly uncomfortable to say I'm a journalist, because although I was hired as one, I don't feel like one.

We have another department that deals with research, analysis and commentaries, but I work for the news desk.
 
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