Plei: yes, that's the site. I didn't link it, but thought the posting would give Jilli and any other gothily inclined a chuckle.

Steph, my boss does that to me all the time. "Why isn't this done?" The deadline is 2 weeks from now! "Have you finished this yet?" The deadline is NOVEMBER! It's very stressful. I say, go to the vet with your cat. Work can wait.

She assigns manuscripts on a Thursday (or sometimes Friday) and explicitly said that they can be returned on Monday (if she assigns 2, then one can be returned on Monday and one on Tuesday; if she assigns 3, then Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, etc.).

If she sends me articles on a Thursday and I don't have any other work, I start right away, and I can often return stuff the next day. I think she got used to me returning things early, because when I've had other work (as in, work the AMA assigned, which she KNOWS ABOUT) and couldn't return things early, she gets antsy and asks, "Did you return anything yet?" (What I really want to answer is, "You know goddamn well that I didn't because you can see on the database that there are no completed articles under my name, so stop with the passive-aggressive shit.")

But then when I ask her to clarify (yet again) when things are actually due, she'll say "Oh, Monday and Tuesday are fine!"

Apparently when she sends me something, I'm going to need to reply right away with "I WILL RETURN THIS MONDAY."

(And the REALLY annoying thing about this situation is that when she assigned me this article, I told her that I couldn't start on it until Friday *because* of other AMA work, which she knew about. AND this is an exceptionally long article -- realistically it's almost 14 hours of work. And yet she wanted to know if an article I told her I couldn't start until Friday, an article that was 14 hours of work, was returned Friday. NO WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU.)

I'll probably go to the vet, but I'm just stressed and really rushing my work now, and this is a shitshow of an article where all the statistical data (which is not one of my strengths) appear to be wrong, with no explanation of why the percentages are off by as much as 50%. So every other line I have to put in a comment to the authors to ask them to clarify their faulty fucking math.

Ugh, Steph, I despise editing papers that are math-heavy.

Because they're ALWAYS WRONG. How can you tell me that 41 of 250 patients is 70%??? Even *I* can see that without even using a calculator.

Today is the first day of "Welcome Week". Three days of orientation, then Thursday and Friday begins classes. (these two days fill in for the Thanksgiving holiday, where those days are off, so the Th/F classess still meet 10 times). Why we start so late is a mystery to me. I wouldn't mind starting a few weeks earlier, and winter break start with Thanksgiving! Break up the year a bit. But, I'm just a simple staff guy. What do I know?

Wow, that's a super short semester!

We are quarter system. 3 quarters of ten weeks each. Then there are two summer sessions, each is 5 weeks. Not a lot of classes in school of the arts in the summer sessions, and no productions.

So far the kitty is okay. The vet thinks it's a combo of allergic rhinitis, lower humidity now that fall is on the way, possibly an infection, and a lot of inflammation (with an ear fungal infection to boot). So she got an antiinflammatory shot, and a shot of antibiotics, and some stuff in her ears. She is righteously pissed. I asked about antihistamines to stop her sneezing, but the vet said if the problem is being exacerbated by low humidity, antihistamines will just dry her out more, which will make things worse. So for now we're going to set up the room humidifier near her bed and see if that helps. (Presuming she'll stay in her bed. Right now she's in full "fuck you I am going to go hairball in all of your shoes" mode.)