It was white, square, and it looked like a tooth.

So I ate it. Like you do.

Just sent this haunted cursed issue to press. I expect within 12 hours the EiC will send me something that frantically needs to be corrected.

We do indeed have the same job. I am not making this up: at least 8 issues out of 11*, within the first 48 hours after I send all the files to our printer and to our webhost, someone finds an error that somehow they forgot to mention on page proofs. Or the authors see their article on the Published Ahead of Print section of the website, and find an error (even though they ALSO get galley proofs and allegedly review them for errors). So then I have to call the printer AND the webhost (who are from the pit of hell [the webhost, not the printer]) and ask them to stop whatever production step they're in so I can re-send them a corrected file.

Fun times.

*(We publish a combined July/August issue, so we only have 11 issues a year. In theory the downtime lets us get ahead. In actuality it lets us get less horribly behind.)

Saw in a Hollaback fb post, chalked " Just because I move through public space doesn't mean my body is public space." So STFU, tiredmouth jerk. Should make business cards to pass out.

I was in a conversation I just had to walk away from last week, being told that I owed "it" to people who responded to how I dressed to...enjoy the response, or something? Not be a snarly bitch? I tried to explain to him that being isn't inherently a performance, and even if you make outrageous choices like blue hair or cosplaying still aren't signing a contract with people that can see them that says they have to be grateful for compliments and guilty for any negative attention sent their way.

I tried to explain how other people's looks weren't my business, and even if I stepped out and thought I was being nice, it doesn't mean that I was being nice, and they don't owe me the benefit of shit.

Of course, he stated, if Bruce Willis wore a sign saying "I hate niggers" in Harlem he's gonna get what he deserves, but no, he's not victim blaming, because we all blame Willis. I tried to explain that thinking he was a stupid asshole acting like a douche doesn't mean I think he should be beaten up.

He wasn't just convinced his behaviour was right, but also that I did display the same.

I am rude to people I don't know, sometimes, by being intrusive (I asked a guy on the elevator today why he was going to the 16th floor...just because. But he was totally into the brief discussion (I got off at 11--I don't know what happens on 16), and if he'd been terse about my nosiness, THAT WAS ALL ON ME. I dig that.)

It was white, square, and it looked like a tooth.

So I ate it.

I say this (usually just inside my head) so often. With the the "but it wasn't a tooth" part. Because, yo, one does not eat teeth. Just the white, square things that look like teeth but are not teeth. So I ate it.

I have no lease, so they can do what they want.

Mine is coming up and I just got a voicemail about what the increase would be if I don't sign a new one. Holy HELL. It's more than $300. Guess who is about to stop waffling?

I was in a conversation I just had to walk away from last week

I'd have been tempted to kick them in the nuts.

Also, anytime I watch a show on modern astronomy, I either know by name or sight 75% of the people interviewed and have probably talked to 30% of them face to face at some point. Small, incestuous world.

I know who several of them are by voice. I don't have to look up. I watch way too many shows on astronomy. And envy your world.

We do indeed have the same job.

Good grief, Steph, we really do.

Yikes, Cass!

I say this (usually just inside my head) so often. With the the "but it wasn't a tooth" part

Me too! And I have told that story to many people. Who usually don't really get it.

The idea that existing makes me meat to be talked about makes me ragey. But so does my lack of sleep.

Have any of you tried the color acuity test? [link] Mine sucks. In part because I got bored and didn't do two lines, but still. Not good.

I tried it, I did all three lines and got a 12, which surprised me.

Mine was 29. Not sure what that indicates.

I got a 15, which is better than I thought I would do.