Screw this

I work with crackpots. This is well-known if you read this blog. A lot of these crackpots are stuck on this Law of Attraction and crap, that if you just visualize and believe, you can have whatever you want. I find this to be bullshit on many levels. Whenever someone keeps assuring you that there's scientific proof but never actually states it, that means it's bullshit.

Anyway, I'm working away, and these crackpots are talking about living your passion and doing your life purpose. You should do what you love to do because that's what you were put here to do. I sincerely want to send their transcript back half-edited and tell them, "Sorry. I couldn't finish this because this is not in alignment with who I am, so instead of doing the work you hired me for, I went to do my life purpose."

Think that would fly?

Bad Romance

I was at Barnes & Noble this weekend picking up the newest Sarah Dessen book when this caught my eye: front and center on the Teen Romance display was the book Dreamland (same author). 

Um, Dreamland is about a chick in an abusive relationship. I can't decide if that's funny or just really sad. 

Oh, tenses

From an article I'm editing:


in the present tense as if it’s already happened.


Back to English 101!

More cynicism

From today's crackpot:


What you focus on, you attract into your life. There are thoughts you hold dear to you and you say and think over and over. Whatever thought is held repeatedly with strong emotion will tend to manifest. Whatever you’re thinking most of the time is what tends to manifest in your life. 


Do you hear that, anorexics? You're gonna get fat.

This headline is not okay with me

Mather marshals Braves past Angels in 12th

Girl humor

Funniest product name/description ever (no, they are not actually cupcakes):


Cleavage Cupcakes Just Like Homemade

Stop your wining!

From the article I'm working on about marketing a restaurant:


They’re going to feel obligated so they’re going to buy a nice bottle of whine