Knitting with Fibro

In my first job I was a proofreader, which I assume is a similar activity. I found that if I thought too much about what the person was saying, I would miss mistakes because my brain would provide the missing word or correct the incorrect spelling or syntax. If what I was reading was interesting, it was even easier to miss mistakes. It was better to be alert but not actually engaged. That's what I meant by getting in a zone.

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B Vaugha
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I see. Well, I proofread textbooks for a typesetting company for a number of years before doing medical transcription, and I know what you mean about getting in the zone, because I had to learn the same thing, but a good medical transcriptionist will *not* get in that zone while he/she is transcribing, because doctors often make mistakes and it's part of the transcriptionist's job to help catch them, so thinking about what the doctor is dictating is really important unless you are the typing monkey type of transcriptionist.

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Melinda Meahan - take out TRAS

LOL! Well we know he suffered from insomnia--who could write that much and get sleep?

And if he didn't have Fibro for sure he had carpel-tunnel (sp--sorry) from all that writing.

Murielle

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MSey

Absolutely! (It's from Hamlet and if I were feeling even a little more energetic I'd look it up for you.) He has lots of that kind of thing. I'm sure the man could have found a fancy way to say,"take the garbage out". ;-))

Murielle

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MSey

I've got so much on the top of my nightstand and in the top drawer ... there's no room. But I'm going to work on it. ;-)

Hugs, Murielle

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MSey

i keep a bad side paper as well . mirjam

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Mirjam Bruck-Cohen

Taketh the trash from the confines in which we dwell, forthwith! LOL

*hugs* Gemini
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Not Likely

A bit messy? Me too... it means we don't have idle minds. Oh, is that the truth... especially being a Gemini... my mind is *always* on the go with a few thousand things at once. ;o)

*hugs* Gemini
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Not Likely

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Right on! Or as the bard may have said: Rightith onith. ;-))

Hugs, Murielle

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MSey

Aquarian here. I really like your interpretation. In fact, I think we should stick to that. ;-))

Murielle

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MSey

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