ita, sorry you're hurting. I hope this all works out for you. But it's very good to see your pixels.

Allyson, I'm glad your brain is healing, and I hope you can overcome the devastation of Kristen's rejection of your lovely countertops.

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.

Us too. 48 hours, no guarantees when. I try to build in more time, but I can't always. We publish 52 journals; I handle two of them and might be editing articles for six or seven others at any time as needed. I aim for perfection, but I don't always achieve it.

Uhg, hate structural failure. And I get it. I don't know if it is a side effect of replacing a portion of wall and it turning out pretty good or what, but now I'm hyper aware of all the shitty spots. Like all the walls around my mantle. Uhg.

We publish 52 journals

Sweet Jesus. I bow before you.

When we were taking the plaster walls down to put up drywall and being things up to code, we discovered a huge SANTIAGO painted across the wall. That was the dude who flipped our house before the last owner. He has become the Tino of every house problem we've had since.

Sweet Jesus. I bow before you.

Well, *I* don't do 52 journals! I do two, one of which I'm handing off to my protege (I'm so proud). I'll get a new one next year. I edit around 4000 pages a year. Fast turnaround time. I'm working right now. Author doesn't like the amount of space between the numbers and the words after them. hahaha yeah. Burnout.

Author doesn't like the amount of space between the numbers and the words after them. hahaha yeah. Burnout.

That's the kind of author reply where I squint at the screen and mutter "Fuuuuuuuuuck youuuuuuuuuu."

t /editor problems

"blahblahblah our style blahblah no."

Allyson! Welcome back, and I'm glad things are improving.

Too bad about the counters, though.

I am considering counters.

ita, I hope things look up. You deserve a lot of good luck. As does Theo.

My dog is anxious, dunno why. Probably because she doesn't like the way she feels: she had a needle biopsy today and they sedated her for it, and she must feel weird. But it makes me feel bad because I can't do anything to reassure her. Hopefully she'll settle down.

Now I get to be anxious and wait to find out if she has cancer. One way or another, there will be surgery, but the biopsy will tell me whether I have to spend next month's mortgage payment on further tests.

I'm glad to see you, ita, but I wish things were easing up for you. Many fingers crossed on job and health fronts.

And glad to see you too, Allyson. Yay for healing, and hanging out for a while.

I am crazy tired so I am going to bed and rest of the grading will have to wait for tomorrow. Oh well.

My knowledge of the Uber system comes from the training videos, and yes, we get to see the passenger ratings before we say yes to giving a ride. I guess I'd better see if there's more of an instruction manual out there.

(There may be a need for "Uber: The Missing Manual" booklet or something.)