People don't usually think beyond their own needs, so I will be calm about the fact that nobody seems to be remembering that I'm working two jobs right now and I can't prioritize every request.

Instead I will churn through this work and then write down a list of moving things I need to accomplish today.

Hahaha, oh boss, giving us a deadline of 10am when the whole department is in a meeting 9-10:45 doesn't make a whole lot of sense...oh well, have done what I can.

I woke up with my back moderately jacked up (SUPER sore and tight, but not pinchy-painful), so now I'm trying to work after taking a muscle relaxant. By the end of the article I'm probably going to be making sentences read "In May 2014, a man in his 60s presented to his dermatologist for an enlarging patch on his forehead, glarble flarmner hoooooo."

Ooo, Steph, that sucks. I have to hold onto the walls after I take a muscle relaxant, so I wish you much coherency.

The Cincinnati thing… no words. My heart hurts.

Angry author is still angry, demanding special snowflake treatment and what am I going to do about this. My boss is in the special hell dealing with her boss this morning, so I gave her a break and agreed to handle Snowflake myself. I wrote him an email telling him the same thing I told him in the last email, and copied the Editor in Chief. Oh, please, go on and escalate this, Dr. Snowflake, so the higher-ups will ask me what happened and I can tell them professionally and diplomatically what a jerk you are. You won't get any satisfaction from them, either, I promise.

And now I have to get dressed for real and take my car to the mechanic.

Angry author is still angry, demanding special snowflake treatment and what am I going to do about this.

This is the one whose article was published with an error? And he already knows a correction is going to be published? What else can you do? I mean *literally* what else can you do? Offer to fly him to your office so he can punch the person who made the error? Buy him a labradoodle?

Seriously, what else does he want from you, beyond a correction being published?

Seriously, what else does he want from you, beyond a correction being published?

He wants someone to go back in time and prevent the error from happening? He wants all copies of the article with the error destroyed and everyone who saw the error having their minds erased?

Dr. Snowflake, I have a clue by 4 for you.

I go back to the dentist at noon today to get imprints for my permanent bridge. I know it is just impressions and no real "work" being done on my teeth, but I still don't wanna. Honestly, I'd like to crawl in bed and sleep for the next 48 hours.

He wants someone to go back in time and prevent the error from happening? He wants all copies of the article with the error destroyed and everyone who saw the error having their minds erased?

I dunno, that sounds pretty reasonable.

So my new staff person started today -- yay! But come to find out, she got married last week and is changing her name, so now she needs new email and everything else name-based. (On the upside, I have to hope that the new husband is a citizen, which is why she is so sure she won't have anything to worry about when her current one-year visa expires...)

That seems like something that could be planned ahead for.