Teppy - you are an excellent editor. You have multiple e-mails that say so. Duh.

Oh, I'm just laughing at myself at this point. I got so OTT with trying to explain it away as anything other than my own skill, and once I reached an absurd enough point of OTT-ness, then I realized how ridiculous I was being and just had to laugh.

Liese, I'm so sorry for your loss.

Anna is more ethnic than Patty?

Tep, how great that you can recognize and laugh! That makes me very happy.

Oh my goodness, Suzi, that sounds like an adventure waiting to happen.

I got Thai food for lunch. Rad na and labna sound like words in an alien language. I don't mean the Thai language sounds made up, I mean those particular words sound like some particular made up language that I can't quite remember the context for. There's a voice I hear them in, though. Kind of high-pitched and metallic sounding.

Condolences, Liese. :( And sj.

I am so anxious right now. That's not usually a thing for me but my tummy is all fluttery and my pulse is racing. I think it's a combo of work stuff (I have no idea what I'm doing, in this new position, and that's scary, as is figuring out if I'll even LIKE it) and personal stuff (I think the girl I've been dating since New Years and I are going to break up, and more than breaking up, I hate anticipating that conversation and I hate having that conversation. But sending an abrupt "you're being weird and if you want to break up lets just be broken up ok?" text would not be cool)

I'm so sorry for your loss, Liese.

I'm sorry for your loss, Liese.

The highway is closed right now because of a police shooting, and we need to take that highway for a board meeting tonight (one I would vastly prefer to skip), so I emailed the board members to tell them about the highway being shut down and that if we're late, it's because we had to take a different route.

The chair of the board just called me to spend 10 minutes telling me different routes I could take, even though I kept interrupting and saying "We both have GPS on our phones and I'm sure we'll be fine". I said that like 5 times and she kept talking.

And I have an author emailing repeatedly saying she doesn't understand why the footnotes in her table are rearranged from the way she presented them (they weren't in alphabetical order, which I told her, and she is SERIOUSLY not grasping the concept of "alphabetical order"; I even wrote the following sentence: "The footnotes need to appear in this order: a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, but your original manuscript had them in this order: a, b, c, d, e, h, g, f, i, which is why they were re-ordered" and she STILL DOESN'T GET IT I AM GOING TO SHANK SOMEONE).

Steph, the list starts out a,b,c,d and I bet her brain skips the rest of it and doesn't see what's wrong. Try saying "g and h cannot come before f. Alphabetical order is required."

Or just keep repeating "They need to be in alphabetical order." Over and over.

Or throat punch her.