Yes, I know I left the "a" out! 

By now most of you have figured out that I love my husband dearly--eccentricies and all.  He is by far one of the most brilliant (if not the most brilliant) people I have ever know.  Most of my adult career has been spent in research administration.  For those of you who don't know what that means (including my mother who still can't remember what I got my Master's in) I work with various nonprofit organizations getting and managing grants--usually from the government.  Most of that career has been spent working with a brilliant (and also eccentric) scientist who, before being a scientist, was an English professor.  As a result, I spent many hours proofreading grants, scientific papers, pretty much anything.  It actually still not one of my strengths, but I've gotten pretty good.

My husband, on the other hand, has two problems with writing.  First, his mind works faster than his hands can type.  The net result is that he has great ideas that are all over the place, not always in any coherent form.  The second is that he can't spell.  I should revise that--it's not that he can't spell, as evidenced by the many times he has slaughtered us playing Scrabble--rather, he just really doesn't care.  Grammer is a whole other topic.  He always claims that his sometimes questionable grammer is because English wasn't his first language.  Sure honey, just stick to that story.  I will admit that my writing is not always perfect, but I try.

Recently I had the priviledge of reading something that another friend of his in network marketing wrote.  After I read it I asked "Does he want to know about typos?"  Robin said, "Sure, let me know where they are and I'll send them to him."  Now, I'm not exactly sure how this happened, but pretty soon I was the resident proofreader.  No copy was allowed to go out until I had proofread it!  Of course, the fun thing is that you get to see everything first.  The bad thing is that these two really love capital letters and repeating themselves. 

Robin says, "What you say is more important.  I make mistakes on purpose just see if anyone is paying attention."  Sure.  I say, "I got so distracted with the mistakes, that I forgot what you said!"  Let's just say we agree to disagree (and he sends me pretty much everything he writes to be, as he calls it, cleaned up).

Thanks for reading!

P.S.  No, I didn't proofread his last two blogs.  He got too far behind and didn't have time to send them to me first!