lol, I just found a citation to an online article that was apparently written in 1016 instead of 2016. Glad I fixed that before sending it back.

Definitely. And this was typing on a keyboard, but when I'm busy thinking about how to explain something to the author, it's easy to miss little grammar issues.

birography --> biography

Speaking of reviewing a ms. before turning it in—I always reread the footnotes/endnotes. There is so much to check in each citation that I need two passes to catch everything.
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if --> in

This was in one of my notes, which is why I always read through my comments again before turning in a manuscript.
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Merriam-Webster, what's 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭?
MW: "of or relating to a pollex"

Okayyy, what's a pollex?
MW: the thumb, or "the dactylopodite in the chela of a crustacean"

Well. I am way out of my niche here. 😂
(Something to do with crab limbs, apparently?)

pollical --> political

I didn't even know 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 was a word, but apparently spellcheck did. 😅
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aide --> aid

That one usually goes the other way around, but either way, spellcheck didn't catch it. 😉

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lose --> loose

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advisories --> adversaries

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mailable --> malleable

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Are those astronaut cats? Glorious.

I completely lost my entire jewelry box after we moved over 2 years ago. I was totally convinced it was lost for good, but then my husband found it after we moved a couple of months ago. I hope you have a similar random find.

A selfie of my husband, Jason, and I standing in front of some docks on Lake Washington in Seattle.

It's conference day! 📝

I'm excited to attend my first in-person editing conference, put on by @edsguild.bsky.social, and I brought my husband along. If you see us there, say hi!

Yesterday we worked our way to Seattle and got to see a bit of town before it got dark.
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I saw that! Very cool. I've taken the nose foam out of Auras to put in generic black headband masks for a couple of concerts I've been in, and it will be nice to not need to do that.

Context: I'm getting ready for a concert and listening to podcasts.

The latest Perpetual Chess episode just popped up talking about Daniel Naroditsky and uh ... that's not a great topic to bring up while I'm **trying to put on eye makeup.**

RIP Danya

And then there's me: the exact opposite

The corner of my laptop covered in ragged sticky notes with chapter numbers written on them that I can cross out as I go.

My very professional organization system. 😂
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Thank you! Now it's Monday and I have work to do, so I'll have to get back to this another day, but that's a good start. Thanks again for writing such a good book!

*purity and contamination as metaphors for holiness and sin

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Chapter 2 just dropped 😅

All that to say, yeah. Disgust doesn't care about logic, and it is a powerful motivator. To deal with any of these messes we're in, we're going to have to undermine the disgust reaction, so thank you to Paul and Billie for jumping into the work.

(And I recognize my privilege as a straight-passing person to have that realization/experience be uncommon and delayed until my twenties.)

Anyway, I'm sure this argument has been had over and over. But it was the most memorable time for me that I saw the visceral disgust overriding logic in real time. Before that it was an intellectual debate to me: does the church allow this or that? I thought it was about actions, but no.

I've thought about this convo a lot since then, but it really comes down to his disgust. Despite his arrogance, he could not continue rationally, but his disgust remained. Being straight (I assume), he couldn't imagine SSA ever feeling natural, and so it disgusted him. His word for that was sin.

"But it's not intentional. It's not changeable. How can you say that's a punishable sin?"
"Well it's not just...it's... I just, I think I've thought about it more than you."

[There was a bit more discussion in there before he said that last sentence and gave up, but that's basically the substance.]

"So if it were a woman who had the same thought but shut it down b/c they're the same sex, wouldn't that be the same thing?"
"No, it wouldn't. That would be a sin."
"What? How is that any different?"
"Because the body... just knows that isn't natural. It goes against God's design, so it's sin."

"You said it's a sin to be gay?"
"Yes."
"Not just gay sex? Like just experiencing attraction to the same sex is a sin, even if you didn't mean to?"
"Yes."
"So...if you saw a hot woman and went 'ooh she's pretty' but immediately shut it down b/c you're married, that wouldn't be a sin?"
"No."

I went to talk after. (Great idea, Marissa. Always go confront the narcissistic middle-aged white guy. 🙄 It was fine though; I needed to. And to be clear, by this point I didn't think gay marriage was a sin either, but I knew that conversation wasn't going anywhere.)

We knew the CB church was against gay marriage, but previous pastors had tried to be polite and focus on loving our neighbors and just didn't make a fuss. Not so with the new guy. Very early he was brashly preaching that it's a sin to be gay.

Wait. *Be* gay? Surely I didn't hear that right, right?

My husband and I started deconstructing while we still worked for a Baptist church, putting us in a tricky transition spot for a bit. That ended abruptly when they hired a new pastor.