Oh, frigg, man, you've had this paper in process for TWO YEARS and you didn't notice any of this stuff until AFTER you signed off on publication? What the hell? How about finishing writing the paper before you submit it? How about READING the paper before you submit it? And then get mad at ME for saying NO MORE CHANGES, way past deadline. Ass.
Seriously, these people give me rage blackouts. You returned it. You were the one who signed off on it and said everything was okay! Then you flip your shit because you forgot several really important things?!? These are the authors who I truly think don't even read over their galleys.
I expect authors to find stuff, even important stuff -- but that means finding it WHILE they're actually reviewing their galley the way they're supposed to. At my old job, literally every issue we had the problem where authors would sign off on galleys as okay, we would put the articles up on the website, and then they would see them online and lose their fucking minds because they found errors. They would try to write retractions that referred to "typos" and "editing errors," but you'd better believe THAT shit didn't stand.
Steph, that is perfect for cocktail attire! You will look smashing, and it sounds like you'll have a great time!
Man, I have been adulting today like WHOA.
Mom helped us out with the gas so we won't have to wash our bods out of a crockpot for a month, but we're still carrying a balance. But YAY THANK YOU MOM. So I don't have to sell my car quite yet. Maybe.
And it's a gorgeous day out today, and I have the windows open and am editing.
Back to work, yo.
I don't want to be an adult today. I just want to lie on the floor and make groaning noises like Gary Busey in the Amazon Fire Stick commercial.
So, did you all hear about the awful fraternity at University of Oklahoma and the racist chanting? The national fraternity has cut ties but the university president just stepped it up:
Boren said SAE residents would have to remove their possessions and vacate the house "by midnight tomorrow."
At today’s news conference, Boren added that he doesn't plan on helping the displaced residents find housing.
"That's not our responsibility," he said. "We don't provide student services to bigots."
So that thing where if someone interrupts you it takes you 25 minutes to get back to whatever you were doing is really biting my butt today. Not to mention I am annoyed at my co-worker whining "when you make changes that affect our reports will you notify us?" when I have EVERY SINGLE TIME she just didn't do what I told her to back in January. ARGH.
Not in publications, but the theatre artistic director makes all these schedules and documents, and he abbreviates EVERYTHING to the point that I can hardly read it.
He sounds like he's an ex-Microsoft person, because the amount of acronyms made up and used at random there is impossible to keep track of.
Burrell, how soon can you get it checked?
I'm supposed to get my skin checked every 6 months regardless, and the next is scheduled to be in 2 months. I could probably call up and get that rescheduled for earlier, but my dermatologist is busy so probably still a month wait. And I definitely want to see my guy because he has a reputation for being able to diagnose cancer on sight with a ridiculous degree of accuracy.
Just caught a lizard in the house.
Seriously, I got two cats here, and I'm the one who catches the lizard?!?
