Jola (Close Reading)

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Indexer. Copyeditor. Proofreader. Medieval historian. Jeanne de Divion was framed. TTRPG enthusiast. Indexes things from Aristotle to the X-Men. Past president Indexing Society of Canada. Co-chair KWG Twig, Editors Canada. closereadingie.com. She/They.

Operatune Neptune. Copyright 1991. The Learning Company.

Pencil, a mackerel tabby, in an empty reusable food shopping bag, wondering where the food is.

Pencil, a mackrel tabby kitten, but a biggun, lounging on the bed with his favourite catnip mouse. The mouse is green with white linkng showing through from years of love and play.

Black cat on a knitted blanket, which has a sampler-block-style design featring cabling, textures, lace work, and colour (sage, jalapeno, charcoal, tide pool, mushroom).

Three-ring binder with home printed black and white comic cover. Simple stick figure-style drawings. Split image of a town on fire with a person saying “Burn it all! And bring wine.” Second image a close-up on the person holding a glass of wine, saying, “1346 was the last good year.”

Mackerel tabby kitten sitting on a lap with his little brown paws on the wrist rest of a black keyboard that has green backlighting. Kitten is looking up at the camera.

Mackerel tabby kitten asleep on top of a board game box, tucked behind an open laptop. His head is pillowed on his foreleg.

Makerel tabby kitten looking at the camera, head peeking out from behind a laptop screen with Index-Manager open. Window behind kitten.

Promo image. Indexes explained for non-indexers. Proofreading gets faster and easier once you understand how indexes really work. Jolanta Komornicka. Instructor.

Geordi and Data from TNG as Holmes and Watson.

Black cat settling down on an orange jelly roll rug that’s in the process if being quilted together on a sewing machine.

Grey and white cat sitting on a table with his head between the earcuffs of overear headphones.

Cover image for a book. The Unruly Tongue: Speech and Violence in Medieval Italy. By Melissa Vise. Image has a gaggle of late medieval Italians all lined up and chatting with each other.

On a frozen Ontario lake, a Canada goose hisses mightily at a bald eagle, which looks just a bit shocked that the goose is fighting back. Don’t mess with the cobra chicken!

Person with dark hair and glasses wearing a black cardigan and a grey Dungeons and Dragons tshirt. Yellow lettering. Showing the classic cover from the Advanced Players Handbook.

Keyboard with teal backlighting

Grey and white cat lying on a hand perched over a laptop keyboard

The only way to make progress in a situation of oppression is to rock the boat, and to rock it with such violence that either it sinks or it becomes a decent place in which to live. —Julian Mayfield

Knit strip for scarf in white and green. Teapot, teacup, and mugs surrounded by a geometric border.

Knitted scarf, very partial (about 3.5 in long), stockinette. Colour work of deep blue with a biscuit contrast spelling out 2025. Flower doodles adorn the year on either side. (reverse, not pictured, looks the same.)

Two sweaters pinned on a red matt, for blocking. Top sweater is an off-white cardigan with colourwork on the yoke and hem in navies and greys. Bottom sweater is a dark blue hip-length pullover with cabling on the yoke.

Cover art for 1999 cast recording of Martin Guerre soundtrack. Fire theme on black.

Two cats on a red blanket on a person’s lap, a hand with knitting in forwground. Black cat looking chill. Grey-and-white cat caught mid-yawn.

Black cat on a bookshelf between reference books.

White tshirt with the rebus phrase No Man The Law; there is a divider between the first two and second two words such that no man is literally printed above the law. Vote blue is written at the bottom right.

Halloween Candy Trade-In
1 Chapter book = 10 pieces of candy
1 Graphic novel = 15 pieces of candy
1 Board game = 30 pieces of candy
1 Squishmallow = 40 pieces of candy

NB: 1 full-size candy bar = 4 fun size

Black kitten playing with a Lego brick on a multicoloured Lego table.

Mulder and Scully from the X-Files, rocking their tench coats.

Augustine of Hippo refuting a heretic. Illuminated mss, 13th c. A tonsured, bearded man with a halo, dressed in a long blue robe, stands on the left, switch aloft. On the right, a heretic-cum-demon stands astride a fallen city. Demon-man is naked, ripped bod, but could use a beard trim.

Bowl of chips on a red blanket. Grey and white cat lies at end of blanket, looking away, completely uninterested in the human food.

Coffee table laid out with a bottle of pinot noir, a small bottle of Johnny Walker Black Label and another of Jack Daniels, two martinis (one raspberry espresso, one mocha), two wine glasses, six chocolate covered strawberries, a slice of pecan pie, and a creme brulee. In the background, a green wall and plant, two red chairs flanking. Three political buttons decorate the table: Protect Trans Kids, These Guys Are Just Weird, OMG GOP WTF.

Black cat lying on her human’s forearm, trapping the hand at the keyboard.

Shelf full of teas, most in canisters of various sizes, including repurposed chocolate and cookie tins.

A grey-and-white cat, shot from above, lying across the forearm of his human, trapping the hand at the laptop keyboard. His ears say he’s very happy about this fact.

Grey and white cat’s head poking out of a mottled grey and white cat-carrier sling. He looks content.

Black cat lying in a dark purple suitcase. Clothes piled up behind her. Her ears are slightly back and she is giving the camera the side-eye.

Black cat sticking out a pink tongue.

Kandyman from Doctor Who. A robot-like construct made out of hard candies: round blue head with candy swirl eyes, red upper body. Funky mustache.

David Tennant as Doctor Who. Image is close-up on the Doctor’s face, left side of picture, while right side of picture shows the TARDIS (a mid-20th c. British police box).

Richard Dean Anderson as MacGyver. White male with mullet and brown, worn leather jacket over a light grey tshirt.

Black cat curled up on the back and shoulder of a person with glasses in a grey sweatshirt. Cat is getting full sun from the window directly behind, looking content and loving.

Grey and white cat lounging on his side, on grey porch furniture, basking in the morning sun. His face says, “Why did you stop giving belly-rubs?”

Facebook post from Sarah Bond: Working with Jolanta N. Komornicka to do my index has been splendid-and I would recommend her editing and index services to everyone. But also I may be the first ancient historian to have successfully listed Chipotle (re: their anti-unionization efforts) next to Christ.

Still from Commander Keen

Goro and Johnny Cage frame from the 1995 Mortal Kombat.

Person in glasses with brown hair sitting in front of a window. Behind and at right-side shoulder, a black cat looks on intently.

Black cat, close-up on face. Pink tongue sticking out.

Genesis, We Can’t Dance. Cover and cassette tape.

Medieval marginalia of a brown bear hugging a man.

Screenshot of an email:

Flair Airlines. Craving that adrenaline rush?

Black cat giving the stink eye over a lack of belly rubs while on human’s lap at human’s work desk. Batting at the arm in the sling to get it to provide those desperately needed scritches.

Desk setup featuring a vertically oriented portable monitor to the left, a 32” monitor to the right. Desk has the typical oddments: CMOS 17, day planner, pencil cup, water bottle, fountain pen, stress ball, post-its, wooden fox eyeglass holder (adorbs!), keyboard and mouse. Not pictured: desk cat askeep in his cat bed.

Geraldine McEwan as Miss Marple.

Black cat lying across an open 3-ring binder.

Black cat, looking forlorn, on a bookshelf, slotted between CMOS 16 and Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate 11. Other reference works include M-W’s English Usage and 16 books on indexing.

Grey-and-white cat crouched atop an orange book. Post-it notes stick out from the book. Cat is very alert.