"You're Looking At That Thing in the Corner, Aren't You?"

The title of this post just comes from something my boss said that I found funny the other day. We were going over the continuous edits I have been making to the WVU Press website. We were talking about how the entries were coming together well and now there were just some factual errors and issues of timeliness that needed addressed. For example, some of the entries included reviews of the books, some didn't. Some of them included brief bios of the writers, some of them didn't. In other random instances there are web addresses at the end of the entries that lead to full websites that offer total biographies and current activities of the writers. Most do not include this feature. The factual errors were mostly concerned with where to get more information on the authors, one of which sited a radio program that went off the air more than a year ago.

Since there is so much more to worry about with all of the entries for so many books, Than and I decided to write one perfect entry and then model the rest after that. This includes not only the style, but also the content and length of the entries. Basically, they all need to have a synopsis, review, and blurb from a random person who supports the book. They all need to be similar lengths as well. This will be the hardest part, seeing as all the content for the separate entries is always very different.

So, this is what we were talking about when Than made the random comment, "You're looking at that thing in the corner, aren't you?" I was paying attention to what he was saying, no kidding. There was just this big yellow and black thing in the corner that was pretty unrecognizable. I asked him what it was and he said he didn't know, but everyone who walked into the office looked at it in one point on another apparently. Our general consensus turned out to be a very unsafe, unstable chainsaw-holder-thing, used to cut branches off the tree.

Random, yes. Distracting from work, maybe. Identifiable, no.