Those pesky microbes…

I’m in the 19-range of my beginning-to-end read of the AMA Manual of Style, and I find my throughhiking metaphor still holds up. Not only am I walking through places that a section hiker might not find worth the time (charts, vocabulary lists), but my pace and milage are heavily affected by outside factors.

Because the point of the exercise is to earn points for my certification maintenance, I’ve been using a stopwatch to track how much time I spend with Big Blue. Because I’m thorough, I kept logging my time even though I’m far past the three-hour mark. (Memo to self: Next time, start this project in December and count it for two calendar years.)

I recently got on a plane to spend a long weekend with family (Airbus), and it turns out I’m either allergic to the whole darn state or I have one whopper of a cold. I made ten pages through the bias and statistics section (my daily minimum) but it took more than double my usual time. I’m slowing down, I’m looking at the flowers but not smelling them due to aforementioned upper respiratory annoyances, but I’m still on track.