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I've been abused by tougher newspaper editors than you guys.  And back then, when copy editing, I wasn't distracted by having to keep looking over my shoulder to see if coworkers and bosses were checking up to see if I was goofing off posting on the internet.  I was good enough to know that just now I crammed four prepositions (  over my shoulder...checking up...goofing off...posting on )... into an otherwise perfectly innocent sentence. 

The difference is that nowadays I just don't care that obsessively about layout, format, style and grammar.  Bugs the living daylights out of Yvonne.  And I was a better reporter and writer than a copy editor, but that was where everybody started out on that paper.   Heaven for me was when I got to go cover news and some other obsessive compulsive got their big job break and had to fix all that stuff when I turned in my stories.

[Redrum]

I've been abused by tougher newspaper editors than you guys.  And back then, when copy editing, I wasn't distracted by having to keep looking over my shoulder to see if coworkers and bosses were checking up to see if I was goofing off posting on the internet.  I was good enough to know that just now I crammed four prepositions (  over my shoulder...checking up...goofing off...posting on )... into an otherwise perfectly innocent sentence. 

The difference is that nowadays I just don't care that obsessively about layout, format, style and grammar.  Bugs the living daylights out of Yvonne.  And I was a better reporter and writer than a copy editor, but that was where everybody started out on that paper.   Heaven for me was when I got to go cover news and some other obsessive compulsive got their big job break and had to fix all that stuff when I turned in my stories.