The Nit-Picker is here! The Nit-Picker is here! (Mark just tweeted: "Am I the only one who sees the irony in 'the nit-picker' coming to a copyeditor's house?")
She checked me, Pete, and Julie thoroughly and declared us nit-free! Watch me, I'm doing a jig! Steph is now getting the treatment. Every time she finds a nit (and so far, she's found only 4, so I'm feeling pretty good about catching this early) she shows it to me, and I nod and make "Um-hm" sounds, but I can barely see anything! They're smaller than the dot on this "i" right here, and they're lightish brown, so they barely even show up. I'm so very grateful she's here.
When we had lice (I was ashamed and titled it "My Lousy Friend") my first thought was that Porter had a very tiny albino ant running through his hair.
EEK!
Posted by: Anne Glamore | April 15, 2008 at 05:02 PM