You will pry my double-spaces out of my cold, dead hands, which will still be reaching for the space bar.

Legal documents. I work on legal documents. Sentences can be hugely long and contain any number of periods. That double-space can be very helpful.

No one ever fucking read them

No one ever fucking reads them. It should just say: Dear author, just send us whatever mess you threw together for the PowerPoint presentation at the conference, and we'll put together a professional journal paper for you. Because that's what's gonna happen anyway.

Steph, we are as one. Last week, an author wrote to inform me that two figures were switched in his published paper. I almost had a panic attack. Turned out, the paper had been online since APRIL and he was just noticing this, and just in time because it's going to press next week, and, he'd noted it in his original corrections as switching the CAPTIONS, which the copyeditor dutifully did even though it made no sense (sigh). Sometimes the dummies are on my team.

TCG isn't allowed to book any more conferences on a Monday. Both of the places I have called for takeout are closed today.

Oh, how about the authors who breeze right past the review deadline and then, just as the whole thing's just about done, say "I have a few changes, but we'll still get this report out on time, right?" And their "few changes" involve renumbering figures, updating the TOC, and adding a new appendix.

I always get a moment of anxiety when an author says "just a few changes!"

My greatest recurring problem is authors who think the figures are not sufficiently high resolution unless they can infinite-zoom and see no pixelation. Every info packet they've gotten (which they didn't read) has told them we use 300 or 600 dpi tiff format graphics. Now they're mad that they didn't get infinite-zoom vector graphics. Nope, you're not getting it. I'm annoyed with soothing them with detailed reasons why we use what we use. I wish I could say, you should have read the info packet(s).

Oh, my god, I always got people who wanted to use crappy graphics they'd found on the internet and didn't understand copyright or the concept of resolution.

I use the single space style. But for some reason, I always end with double spaces scattered throughout. So I just search and replace the final version.

I removed the "seasonal" halloween collars from my kitties last night (they are more bulky than their usual collars...and it was bath night) and put them in a closed box. Woke up about an hour before my alarm to the strangest clanging/dragging sound. Turns out Nico pulled the box off the shelf, dragged out both discarded collars, and then dragged them into my bedroom. Noisily. But then when I went to put his normal collar (the one with my phone number and his liscense number and other important things) he shied away. I just don't understand what's going through his itty bitty kitty brain.

It seems clear to me that he is a Jilli cat and prefers Halloween all the time.

It seems clear to me that he is a Jilli cat and prefers Halloween all the time.

Exactly.