Things you could do while I am sick

Um, yes, totally looking for pity here

While I’m laid up with the ick, here are a few things you could check out while you eagerly await my next post.

Are you interested in starting your own business? Want to find a way to make a living doing the things you love? If you’re the entrepreneurial type, I recommend you pick up a copy of Career Renegade: How to Make a Great Living Doing What You Love by Jonathan Fields. This book provides a step by step guide to turning your passion into a business. It’s packed full of good advice and inspiring stories of people who have done just that.

What I love about this book is it just doesn’t motivate you to get going, it shows you how. You can download the first chapter for free at CareerRenegade.com and be sure to check out Jonathan Field’s blog for more great tips and inspiration.

Some good news!

I’m also really excited to have been added to Alltop, check out the humor section, I’m there if you scroll way, way down! If you haven’t checked it out already, Alltop describes itself as an online magazine rack. You can pick a subject, anything from acne to zoology and find all the latest posts from some of the internet’s best blogs and sites. I like browsing through the different sections, there is always something that catches my eye. One recent discovery was Homemade Hilarity, check them out if you like inexplicable crafts.

BTW, if you check out the sidebar on this blog, there is an Alltop widget with links to some of the newest stories in Alltop humor. After you’re done reading my entire archive, give it a whirl!

And if you want to be a writer of some sort, perhaps even the good sort

You should probably be reading Pro Writing Tips. I finally found out what the passive voice was! You know how? Yup, Pro Writing Tips. Apparently, it does not mean writing in a way that gives the illusion of being meek and/or weak  in order to emotionally manipulate people into doing things your way. Boy is my face red! They have a philosophy of grammar. I love people who take the time to have philosophies and write them down. Also, I have a litte crush on this post: How The New Yorker broke my heart.

(Can I add a note here that while I understand – or I think I remember that – John Roach uses the only capitalize proper nouns title style, I think in this case all of the words should be capitalized because the “the” in “The New Yorker” is capitalized and I think it must hurt the feelings of broke, my and heart to have lower case letters when a mere article is in upper case.)

I haven’t had a chance to fully check out the wonderful site John referred me to, Motivated Grammar but I read the tag line “Prescriptivism Must Die” and that is enough for me to give them the coveted Tracy O’Connor endorsement.

And if you are hungry for chocolate

You must get a box of Recchiuti. I got the black box for Valentine’s and so far it has been amazing. The flavors somehow both accentuate the chocolate and pop. Does that sound review-y and smart? I hope so, I think I’m going to scrap this blog and start a chocolate blog instead in the hopes of getting free samples. Wouldn’t that be renegade-esque? Not only would I be working with my passion, I’d be paid in my passion, too.

I am pleased at how I tied that last paragraph in with the first and will close on that high note. This has been an amazingly long post for somebody as puny as I am at the moment. If you want to help make me feel better, you can tell me in comments why you think descriptivists rule, prescriptivists drool.

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