James M. Fraleigh

@jamesfraleigh

Freelance copy editor, proofreader, writer, observer, reporter, & wit. Deadlines are my lifeline!

Westwood, NJ
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Joined September 2009
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    24 Dec 2015
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    If I've thrived as a copy editor, it's been b/c of my fellow editors here and offline, who have shared wisdom, referrals, and camaraderie.

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  3. 3 hours ago

    Please don’t think less of me for having watched this like 50 times in a row. Mesmerizing.

    This looks like such a GTA thing to do.
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    7 hours ago

    alright which of yall forgot to pay the cthulhu bill

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    Rare giant squid sighting in Tokyo Bay
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    4 hours ago

    All these people Mueller is corralling at airports and getting to sing, Nader, whoever else -- they are all the fellow who le Carré writes about for 30 pages before he is murdered or otherwise compromised.

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  6. 4 hours ago

    “We serve an old man in a dry season A lighthouse keeper in the desert sun…”

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    I was waitressing in uni and came in in a cute skirt & Sisters of Mercy shirt. I was told to go home and change. I went home.
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    I aspire to the iconic behaviour of the JetBlue Flight Attendant Incident guy who "announced over the plane's public address system he was quitting his job... grabbed two beers & exited the plane by deploying the evacuation slide and sliding down it'

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    4 hours ago
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    Boss threw soux chef through a large window. After spending the night taking chef to hospital I quit the next day. “Oh, you’re taking his side?” Side? You mean the side of not being thrown out a window? Sure... that’s my side.

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    4 hours ago
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    Had a boss who had it out for me, so I talked to another manager in another department. She pulled strings, got me a promotion into her area. I ended up getting paid more than my original boss. The look on her face when she was forced to congratulate me on it was transcendental.

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    4 hours ago
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    I quit my first job at KFC because I handed out a giant bag of ketchup packets instead of the correct meal at the drive thru. Told boss I was suddenly allergic to the breading. I was also 15 and then had to wait for my mom to pick me up and had to wait for hours for shift end.

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    4 hours ago
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    I mean, I gave two weeks so it wasn’t like leaving in a blaze of glory, but I really enjoyed how upset she was when the bank president asked for my autograph & to have his picture taken with me.

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    4 hours ago
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    After a year of being publicly shamed by a bank VP for my 2nd hand clothes & for not wearing pantyhose (I was a teller) I finally quit to go to grad school. On my last day I wore a blue prom dress & tiara. She hid in her office after everyone gave me a round of applause.

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  13. 4 hours ago

    Doesn’t the administration tell us the same thing about 45? [cw for pic in story: ableism, cripping up]

    The head of the show “Roseanne” asks viewers to separate the character Roseanne from the persona of the actress Roseanne, who plays the character Roseanne, which is based on herself.
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    5 hours ago
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    I worked at a Panera in Iowa. They made me come in during an active tornado. Shocker, we were dead slow. A few days later, angry at my life being endangered for $7/hr, I left a note saying I had to get back to super hero training and stole an entire box of frozen cookie dough

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    23 hours ago

    Truth

    if you get married and start feeling comfortable around each other please don't think that means you're not in love anymore. you're comfortable around another person. do you even realize. that's the pinnacle baby. the dream
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    13 hours ago

    Let the continuing professional development for editors, proofreaders, copyeditors & indexers begin! Don't miss the 29th conference, 8–10 Sept 2018 at Lancaster University. SENSE members receive a sister society non-member discount.

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    14 hours ago

    Okay so Titanic is a great movie, but then I started to think about J.Cameron and Avatar. Then PJackson and the Hobbit...Spielberg and RP1. I can't think of any directors whose work has actually been *improved* by gaining access to an overload of computery filmmaking toys.

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  18. 5 hours ago

    “Trump’s venting in recent days has seemed excessive, even for him” = no goddamn exaggeration if you read the story. Mother of jabbering Jehoshaphat.

    Festivus begins with Airing of Grievances, which takes place immediately after the Festivus dinner has been served.
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  19. 5 hours ago

    We need to tell him it’s where the Gorilla Channel broadcasts from.

    “The whole post office thing, that's very much a perception he has,” a source told Axios. “It's been explained to him in multiple meetings that his perception is inaccurate and that the post office actually makes a ton of money from Amazon."
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    5 hours ago

    It’s like the plague. These men are like the stuff that gets caught on the bottom of your shoes after concerts.

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    Apr 3

    *whistles*

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