Ah-ha!!!! I've been reconciling a new contract with the pricing workbooks and have been off $1k for the last 3 hours. I've cross checked and recalced and recross checked. And I just found it in a place I SWORE I reviewed multiple times.

Timelies all!

There are many times I'm glad I don't have to deal with the public at work.(Along the same lines, I try to stay out of the malls around the holidays. Amazon wish lists are a godsend.)

My Uber driver last night was called Jahlov. Which I teased him about, since he's American with Belizean parents. I had to find a 24 hour pharmacy (why doesn't CVS think putting 24 hours and pharmacy next to each other has an implication?). Anyway, we had to make stops, and he turned off his meter and waited with me both times. Jah love, indeed.

Hey, Theo--can you look up riders and see how many meowmeowbeenz we have? Or can we do that ourselves?

Sadly, from what I have been told "everything hurts" is par for the course for narcotics

Shame it hurt during as well as after, huh?

I can't decide which I'd prefer working in showbiz--costuming (too many skills to acquire--can you just be the one that does the drawing?) or casting. Casting would be fabulous.

Shame it hurt during as well as after, huh?

That does seem radically unfair, yes.

Oh jeez, ita. But good luck with the job!

I would also like -t's salad.

These both made me laugh:

"What gives this away that it was a meth lab is the fact it's a meth lab," said Provo Police Sgt. Brandon Post.

Not sure how this made it through proofreading, peer review, and copyediting.

Opinions on whether this is worth the price? [link]

Well my experience in a peer reviewed journal after acceptance included:

1) Accusations of self-plagiarism. It took an exchange of about 20 emails, and copying in a senior editor to get the Jr editor making the accusation to read the article I was accused of self-plagiarizing and admit that the article submitted was not self-plageriarizing the already published article.

2) Page proofs sent to me for final review (on a Friday afternoon by the way with a Monday morning deadline) giving the wrong title for the journal I was to be published in.

This may be a hint of how errors can get through the peer review and copy editing process.

I'm not ready to admit shirts from the 80s are vintage clothing.

Page proofs sent to me for final review (on a Friday afternoon by the way with a Monday morning deadline)

Our turnaround time is 48 hours for proofs. Not 48 hours of a M-F work week; 48 hours. We assume that authors may have to review their article in their down time. We have tight deadlines.

Accusations of self-plagiarism. It took an exchange of about 20 emails, and copying in a senior editor to get the Jr editor making the accusation to read the article I was accused of self-plagiarizing and admit that the article submitted was not self-plageriarizing the already published article.

Did they use the word "plagiarism"? I'm just curious, because we have a policy that an author cannot publish material with us that's been previously published elsewhere. That's not plagiarism, obviously, but we still won't publish something that's been previously published. And it doesn't have to be 100% the entire article; it just has to be a majority of the article/data.

(Of course, if they actually thought it was plagiarism, that's just nonsensical.)

Opinions on whether this is worth the price?

39" sleeve? Wow, DH is good with a 36" sleeve. That is really long. Other than that I have no clue on what is a good price. Seems pricey to me.