A Day In The Life

I'm making edits. Yes, to the same document. Yes, I'm still working on it. I have reached page 30. How do I describe this? Let me try to paint a picture:

You are sitting at a desk. A Macintosh computer is in front of you. To your left is a packet of paper stapled together. It is opened to a spread, page 30-31. Taped to this large piece of paper is a smaller piece of paper--it is a copy of page 32-33. On it are edits in black ink, red ink, and graphite. There are seven asterisks, an erased one, the phrase "investment services" was written in twice and crossed out both times, a check mark and an arrow. Under this piece of paper, on the page 30-31 spread, there are two arrows, one that encompasses three sections and indicates to move them to nowhere. There is a Post-it note on it and another small piece of paper taped to it. That makes three extra pieces of paper on this one. And, again red and black ink, apparently used for the writer's delight, not an actual editing purpose. Or if it was, it's not clear to you.

What do you do?

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I just had it explained to me, and now it makes sense. No, not the markings. They still resemble the scribblings of a frustrated editor gone mad, locked in a cell with a typewriter, a black pen, a red pen, a pencil and a stack of old photocopies. So while the markings still bear no resemblance to sanity, I understand what I'm supposed to do.