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I tested out Wordpress's auto-post function this morning by writing a post yesterday and telling it to post today. It works, apparently. It's probably a good thing I checked twitter or I'd have forgotten I did it. The new post is "Forgive Me My Letters" which is a short dissertation on a) why writers are so bad at writing letters and b) how scary book reviewers can seem.

I'd post the letters I wrote, but let's see if they get any results before we go down that particular path...

I think a couple of you spoke to me about soliciting reviews from contacts you have, but I appear to have lost that information, because I am a congenitally disorganised person. I'll probably find it two weeks from now. But yes, here's a general call: if you know someone who does reviews for a zine, magazine, journal, or review website, let me know and I'll get in touch with them. I HAVE A LETTER.

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I realise this looks vaguely like a delft-patterned blob, but it is in fact a cat. A cat with a giant head, true, but a cat nonetheless.

It's like a rorschach or something, huh? It looks more catlike in person. It's just hard to resist using the indigo print paper, it's so pretty!

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Here are some things I did today:

-- Read the latest Chronicle of Philanthropy cover to cover
-- Distilled six articles into bullet points
-- Read two back issues of Chicago Magazine
-- Skimmed a forty-page report on giving techniques for two nonexistent bar graphs
-- Found substitute bar graphs
-- Tracked down five slackers and made them tell me what sandwiches they wanted
-- Placed a twenty-person catering order for Friday (flirted the caterer into agreeing to my chosen delivery slot)
-- Shepherded half my team to get their low-cost flu shots in the basement
-- Made a macro about search terms using a squirrel and spammed the team with it

I think I've either written or read all the words today. I mean, in what other job do you use the words "muffaletta", "injection", "boolean", and "philanthropy" all in the course of seven hours?

Don't get me wrong, I love my job, but I'm definitely earning my salary on days like today.