Reasons Not to Date Me (v. 2.0)

1. I cannot assemble IKEA furniture without adult supervision and/or constant encouragement.

2. I get sad when it rains, and I live in a rain forest.

3. I mercilessly judge people who have a tenuous grasp of (on?) punctuation or grammar.

4. I answer my cell phone when I am out with other people.

5. I like lists. A lot. Especially bulleted ones.

6. I am too short to reach the top shelf.

7. I am too tall for these jeans.

8. I have an astonishing propensity to forget things.

9. I am dsylexic.

10. I just misspelled dyslexic.


~sgm seeks charming dyslexic for long wakls on the beach

I'm struggling mightily

With hyphens today.

Also sentence fragments.

~ "newly-employed twenty-five- year-old g. mango", right? or is it "newly-employed-twenty-five-year-old-g.mango---"?

Ain't that the truth

Today was my first day at the intership. I realize that I have yet to say anything substantial about this new postion, but that is not for lack of effort. I wrote a whole witty, involved post about the internship the other day. But then my computer crashed. So you got nothing, I got a headache, and the computer got threatened to be replaced with a Mac. And now I am all out of wit, so indulge me as I lay before you a bulleted list.

INTERSHIP: A BULLETED LIST IN ONE ACT

• Working as the Publishing Intern for Canadian publishing house that puts out many fantastic books, including a series about a boy wizard, which is supposedly quite popular.
• Officially part-time until the end of December, with the possibility of a full-time extension.
• As far as I can tell from the first day, involves a whole heck of a lot of reading, summarizing, critiquing, and editing potentially publishable material.
• Focuses on works of Adult Non-Fiction and, my personal favourite, Children's Lit.
  
• Could be the start of a wonderful friendship. Or, an enjoyable career.
• Is clear across town and involved an hour and a half commute this evening.
• Has a Coke machine in the lunchroom.

I think that covers the most important points. Especially the part about the Coke machine. But I am happy to answer questions as they arise.

~ g. mango was born with a green spoon in her mouth

Placatory "Drawring"

Contrary to popular belief and interweb chatter, I did not forget to make or post a drawring. What I did forget is that since the Great Computer Crash of 2007,*^ I lost all my programs with which to create a drawring. So my attempts to make a celebratory digital masterpiece were in vain. Instead, here's a lino stamp that I made on Friday night. It has nothing to do with the internship, but I know you visual types have been starved for a drawring.

A LINO "DRAWRING"

The Redefinition of Drawring

~g. mango had a drawring, and you had none

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* Did I forget to tell you about that too?

^ Let us take a moment of silence to mourn all of my files. And another moment to wonder at my bad judgment in double-footnoting one piece of information. This is the kind of thing that would make me lose all respect for a writer; as is the fact that this footnote is as long as a standard paragraph. The possible misuse of the semi-colon above doesn't help either. But you can't lose respect for me, because I made you a drawring.