I know I keep asking what are undoubtedly stupid questions, but I'm just gobsmacked.

Just as I was, when my boss gave me this journal last year! I was all, "What? You mean - what? Seriously?" This journal is Speshul and must do things its own precious way. Which includes a table of contents printed in subject order but NOT in pagination order. And articles published on-line and *paginated* months before the printed volume goes to press. Yes, that sound you hear is me slamming my head on the desk. PLUS, it had a 90 article backlog when I got it, with more coming in every day, and the Society was calling me within a week demanding to know why all their articles hadn't posted yet. What? Seriously? The Society liaison doesn't much like me, and I bet she *really* doesn't like me now.

Sorry to rant. It's just been a horrible day, and the Boss-boss hasn't even heard about it yet. I want to cry from sheer frustration and anger. I hate making mistakes. I really hate being put in a position where mistakes are virtually inevitable, but of course that can't be mentioned.

oh, and let me just add, this isn't even "my" journal, though I'm kinda glad at this point that my name *isn't* on the damn thing. I had to do this one to "cover until we hired someone" while also keeping up with my own, full-time journal. This is just the last straw, really; I've been miserable with this for a year, I'll be done with it in a couple weeks because they did finally hire someone, and now this? It's like a brain-eating zombie that just won't die.

Sophia, do you want recs from me and Ailleann for bandom? Or do you think you've covered it all?

Also, what ita said.

Zen, is the work you're doing in Word or PDF? Because if it's in Adobe, I can't recommend ISI Toolbox enough. It might save your sanity.

Remember the Colorado psychic who got arrested on some financial scam?

Dear god, some people are stupid!

Colorado psychic arrested for telling clients their money was possessed by evil spirits

Nancy Marks, a psychic from Lafayette, Colorado, was arrested for fraud after telling clients their "money [was] evil" and that she'd take their cursed cash so "the money would suffer" instead. Marks made at least $290,000 using this scam.

Marks - who runs a psychic reading business creatively named Psychic Readings - warned victims that malicious spirits were haunting their bank accounts and that she would take the evil assets off their hands. Her scam would've continued had a whistleblower named Linda not contacted police.

javachik - HAHAHA I wish. We edit xml files. Let me just go on record saying that xml is shit for both editing and layout. Why we use it, I do not know.

Sophia! Big Bang is coming!

I can't wait!

Sophia, SPN has lots of long fic. And I totally wanted someone else to suggest that before me. Sigh. That's what I get for websurfing at the gas station.

I stopped reading SPN because I stopped watching, but I think I may eventually watch and I don't want to get spoiled. I have read a lot of RPS for that and LoTRPS, and even some Merlin, although I have only watched the show once or twice.

The problem is that a read realy fast-- so even something long, like Fay's Invisible to see, or Lust over Pendle or what have you, is only going to take me about 1 1/2 busrides. So I go through one-parters like crazy. And when I was reading Agatha Christies on the bus, I could read 2 a day. The Happiness Project, which I was really paying attention to and thinking about, took me 3 rides (3 hours). And I also read on my lunch hour. So, a lot of things to read.

A con artist named Marks? How confusing.

Sophia, do you want recs from me and Ailleann for bandom? Or do you think you've covered it all?

I think I may have read everything that was ever written about Panic, MCR and FOB. At least twice. But thank you!

Which includes a table of contents printed in subject order but NOT in pagination order.

...

I no longer think I work for the most fucked-up journal.

And articles published on-line and *paginated* months before the printed volume goes to press.

God DAMN. That makes NO sense. NONE. We publish the articles online 4-6 weeks before the print journal goes out, but those aren't paginated, and once the print journal goes out, those online articles ("Ahead of Print," we call them) disappear from the site and get replaced with the paginated files.

We edit xml files. Let me just go on record saying that xml is shit for both editing and layout. Why we use it, I do not know.

And I've reached a whole new level of gobsmacked. SRSLY.

XML? For reals?

I boggle.

I think I may eventually watch and I don't want to get spoiled.

Aha. Well, if you ever need the Dean/[spoiler] hookup, I'm your girl. Just saying.