Started applying for jobs in the Twin Cities in earnest; there are actually some editing jobs out there so maybe, just maybe, I can get lucky this time. As per usual, it's frustrating to know (or "know," if you prefer) that I'm qualified and yet look so comparatively inexperienced on paper.

The current nightmare is that I committed a grammatical solecism somewhere in my cover letter.

When I was looking for editing jobs this fall, I intentionally left in some non-error "errors" to separate myself from other, thoughtlessly draconian copy editors — a "which" without a comma, a sentence beginning with "however," that sort of thing — but those were wilder days.

This time I'm trying to show that I can play by the rules; let the fact that some of those rules are nutso come up in the interview.