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.

Actually publishing an article that has been published elsewhere (even by yourself) without disclosure is self-plagerism. [link]

She did use the word self-plagerism, but we are talking the same thing - recycling your old work while claiming orginality. And the point is, as she admitted, I had not done this - it was not just a matter of the words being different - they were completely different articles. So what made her think otherwise? I can speculate, but I don't know for sure. Since she had not read the published article, she must have been taking somebody's word. And even after I protested, she was going to continue to take someobody's word. It took intervention from a Senior editor to get her to even read the article that was supposed to overlap with the one they had accepted. I mean if you are told that an author has done this and they deny it, isn't the next step to actually read the article you are told overlaps? Why would it take your bosses intervention to get you to do that.

In terms of 48 calendar hours being usual turnaround. Well great but I had no notice of which 48 hours. Making those 48 hours run over a weekend - zero week day time allowed is not a good practice, even if it is standard practice. What if I had been out of town that weekend? I guess I would hot have had to opportunity to review the page proofs? I would think that if you are given such a narrow turnaround time you would also be given advance notice of when you will receive them. Or, if exact time is not know, maybe an "expect them in the next 14 days" - maybe with notice, that yes, your 2 days turnaround time can start at 9 PM on a Friday night.

Also, getting the journal title wrong is at minimum an indication that the copy-editor involved is being overworked. Maybe it is the way it has to be done. But it certainly strikes me as a process that allows errors to creep in.