On a workday that was like any other in my life as an agency editor—cold reads, checking changes, updating style guides—my supervisor forwarded me an email containing the question: Should we italicize the noises animals make when they aren’t part of dialogue? I smiled inwardly. My work involves impossibly tiny details and lots of deadlines, but in the midst of it all, we get to have an impromptu debate about animal noises? It’s the slightly absurd and completely delightful discourse of my calling. 

By the way, meow. If you work with me, you’re sure to meet my ever-present coworker, Persephone. She loves to say hi on zoom.

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