They are like scare-crows, only for nasty, nibbly ducks.

Brilliant!

My friend just blew me off for tonight (after calling yesterday to make these plans). She's sick, which would be fine, except this happens more often than not when we make plans. Time to rethink dinner. My plan was to leave TCG with leftovers and grab something for myself while I was out, but there aren't enough leftovers for the two of us.

Anybody lose a head?

Bah. OB/GYN is stumped; says it could be an ovarian cyst, but I need an ultrasound to see what's going on. So I have that Thursday morning.

What's the cutoff $ amount that we're willing to pay to change an aesthetic issue on a page at blueline stage?

ZERO. Too late, muthafukahs! BWAHAHAHA

You can tell what kind of day I'm having.

Can we make just one more change? Can we add an author to the byline after review? Can we change this figure to color? Oh, we forgot to acknowledge financial support, we MUST include that! Can we make just one more change? We know the paper has been published online but can we make just one more change before print? Thanks so much for your patience! Can we make JUST ONE MORE CHANGE?

Today I'm telling my boss that once the April and June issues of this mad evil journal are done, I'm taking a week's vacation for my mental health. (Shouldn't the April issue be done, here it is being the end of April? WHY YES.)

Where is the vodka.

Oh, Teppy. I'm sorry.

Teppy, that sucks. Hopefully the ultrasound will reveal something easily fixable.

Teppy, that sucks. Hopefully the ultrasound will reveal something easily fixable.

This.

Oh, she also said it could "just" be bladder spasms. But what caused them? Don't know. How do I get them to stop? She said I can take Azo for up to 2 weeks and see if that helps (she based that recommendation on the fact that, even though I didn't have a UTI, the Azo definitely helped with the discomfort and irritation).

Can we make just one more change? Can we add an author to the byline after review? Can we change this figure to color? Oh, we forgot to acknowledge financial support, we MUST include that! Can we make just one more change? We know the paper has been published online but can we make just one more change before print? Thanks so much for your patience! Can we make JUST ONE MORE CHANGE?

This is my job. Boy howdy, is this my fucking job.

(Shouldn't the April issue be done, here it is being the end of April? WHY YES.)

You have no idea how much this is my job.

Where is the vodka.

Oh yes, this is so very much my job.

Teppy, I hope they figure that out *really* quickly.

The Asperger's diagnosis is going away in the US -- they're using autism spectrum disorder instead.

Yeah, not here. I raised that with my psychiatrist. It's going to stay here, where we apparently use WHO definitions, not DSM-V ones. There's general confusion from psychiatrists in Europe about why it would need replacing.

But yes, I'm aware that for the rest of my life, I'll have to 'translate' the diagnosis for USians!

And why do I feel as though many of us need scare-ducks? What would that even look like? And can I found a shop on Etsy to sell them?

I WANT ONE. Thankyouplease.

Edited for clarity.

Hi Seska! I hope that now that you have a diagnosis, you can get whatever resources you need to deal with it effectively.

Wishing you spoons, sj. Wishing you an easy lady parts fix, Teppy.

I also hate everything and everyone today. Despite being exhausted from my batshit busy weekend, I couldn't sleep last night. Still PMSing, so my neck is massively out of whack and the brain weasels are whispering that the reason D wants to come over tonight is to break up with me. Not because he didn't get to see me this weekend, oh no.

Whole lot of mentally repeating "my thoughts are waves, and I am the ocean" and the like.