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[rynne]

Note to self: if you're going to take a nap, you should probably do it in the afternoon, not seven/eight pm. And you should get up earlier than midnight. Just, you know, a tip if you want to eventually get to sleep again before the sun comes up.

Oh well. At least I have no classes tomorrow (er, today), so it doesn't matter if my sleeping schedule is a bit weird.

Also, random grammar frustration--numbers. Please to be spelling out numbers less than one hundred, kthnx. Spell out all numbers in dialogue and all ordinal (first, second, third, etc.) numbers. Also various other rules, but these are just the more common things I see, and it's jarring to see something like "He was 14" in prose (especially if that prose is trying to mimic the more formal writing of a textbook). It just seems a bit...dunno, lazy, to me. Honestly, fourteen doesn't take much more time to write than 14 does, and it looks much better to have a sentence be full of words rather than mostly words plus a couple numbers.

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[krisomniac.livejournal.com]

Dude, you ought to read JAVMA (journal of the american vet assoc.) They numeralize EVERY SINGLE NUMBER in every article, even the editorial pieces.

Like:

Each bull is ridden 1 time per afternoon at every rodeo.

It makes me want to throw things.

Although, as I learned it, you only type up to twenty, sentence-starting numerals, dialog, etc...