Index Fun

I would have posted this sooner, but I came home to cat litter everywhere and puke on my bed. Thanks, kitties. You're like living with tiny binge drinkers sometimes.

So, I spent the morning formatting a chapter on insurance, which just about bored me to death. Still, that's not even the most boring thing I do. I'm pretty sure that prize goes either to scanning old documents (ugh...) or proofing indices of old statutes from years past. At least the chapter was about something useful, even if it didn't mean much to me. An index consists of all "Such and such, 1253," or something to that effect, and yes, it has to be read word for word because that's what I do a lot of the time.

The index I'm working on probably runs over a hundred pages, so I have to find ways to make it entertaining and/or keep myself awake. Most of the time, I ask questions about the numbers-- either, is this number cool (usually no), or if the number reads like a year, can I remember anything from history that happened that year? (I've figured out from playing the later that I don't remember very much about historical dates, if anything at all, which is kind of embarrassing.)

Still, every once in a while, the index will make me laugh inadvertently, probably because strange headings end up listed close together, a like so:

Prophylactics
Prostitution
Protection and advocacy, office of
Prowling
Psychologists

And...

Racing commission, Nevada
Racketeering
Radar guns and similar devices
Radiation control
Radio
Railroads
Rape

Ba haha. Sounds like a couple of good episodes of SVU to me. What, you don't compare things at your work to a sometimes violent network criminal drama about sexual crimes? Okay, fine. Maybe something's wrong with me. Don't judge! I'm sure you all have weird ways of staying alert at work, too. ;)

Anyway, I should probably go find something to eat besides string cheese and tortillas. Real healthy-like.