Sexy, Innocent Child-Woman

For the love of God...

To all the authors of the case studies I've been editing all day (and all summer):

1) Please remember to provide the page numbers (or paragraph numbers, for online sources) of your references, so I don't have to search the remotest corners of Google for them.

2) Indicate your sources, period, so I don't have to Google the text to see which bloody corner of cyberspace they'd turn up in and match the text with the material I find online.

3) Papal encyclicals and an online secondary source such as the website of the Vatican are a LETHAL COMBINATION (no offense, Lord).

4) Federal statutes (e.g. Title so-and-so) are da syet! (No offense to lawyers and/or law students, but those things are a bitch to cite).

5) Bato-bato sa langit, ang tamaan 'wag magalit: Don't pretend you referenced legal materials directly. If you lifted the information right out of some report (which I inevitably discovered because I am the Goddess of Research and I have special Google powers), cite the freakin' report! That way, I don't have to worry about formatting legal materials in your reference lists.

6) If I ask you to provide the sources you used for your case study, please do not send me PDF files of the tax returns of the organization you studied because I don't know what to do with them, and they're not even related to what you wrote.

7) Respond to my e-mails promptly.

Utang na loob, bilang na ang araw ko kasi malapit nang magpasukan at ito pa rin ang pino-problema ko. AAARGH! My supervisor just asked me if I could extend my work and offered to pay me but because of my freakin' F-1 visa, I couldn't accept the pay, even if I agreed to do the work. I'm already teaching and still working at the women's archives, so that covers the 20-hour/week limit that I'm subject to, per INS rules.

found herself @ 5:49 PM