Squashed and roasted

[desperance]

I do wish someone would sit Stupid Cat down and just explain to him, what is good catfud and what is not.

I am not quite at my digestive best today - which may be due to the end of a course of medication, or it may be due to the incontinent quantity of beer I consumed last night, being out on the town with Sean - so I thought I'd make soup for lunch, with the butternut squash I'd roasted yesterday.

Think again. Young Sir apparently thinks roasted butternut squash is quite the thing for a growing cat...

So I'm making a mushroom and apple soup with just a hint of roasted butternut squash. Sigh. It'll be fine, but honestly. Butternut squash?

[By the way, does anyone out there know whether, when you italicise a word, it is proper form to italicise also the punctuation that follows it? Question marks, exclamation marks, etc? Or not?]

Comments

[sboydtaylor.livejournal.com]

In an italicized sentence, I believe you are expected to italicize the punctuation. Otherwise it would look very... strange.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

This is my own feeling, and I do it without thinking; but I always have Doubts, because I'm sure I've had professional copy-editors and proofreaders doing the other thing to me. So I thought I'd ask...

[sboydtaylor.livejournal.com]

If the publisher wants it the other way, they will fix it.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

This is true, of course, but I do hate being fixed. I dislike giving them any opportunity - true or otherwise - to think that I have made a mistake.