QC and the editress (Josie and the Pussycats?)

This has nothing to do with Josie and the Pussycats. I must say that while sometimes a bit of mindless QC work is a good way to work mindlessly after a long, trying day's work, doing ONLY QC all day long is not my ideal work situation. I have my little list of jobs in my notebook here--QC, QC, QC--and it's frustrating. How do people deal with down time? I know I could be reading style guides but honestly, who wants to do that when the day has already proved to be full of brain sludge. That's a rhetorical question so I chose not to use a question mark. ;)

So, I'm sitting here with a coffee and a diet coke (oh the choices!), trying to amuse myself by watching CNN videos and pondering life. I guess this post really qualifies as a musing of an editress, though I don't feel like an editress at the moment. I feel like a lump in a cube. Maybe two lumps. Speaking of "editress," I KNOW it's not a real word, and I should just be ashamed of myself for being an editor and screwing with words in the most fundamental part of my EDITING blog. But I thought it was funny, and I sort of like the fact that in French, you can use the masculine or feminine version of ANY descriptive title: acteur-actrice, edtudiant-etudiante, avocat-avocate, editeur-editrice... well maybe I'm exxagerating. I'm not sure if editrice is a real word either, but at least the construction is far more common in French than in English. In English I'd almost prefer there to not be ANY distinction, because there are so few. You know, an actor is an actor is an actor.