I'm at work, doing work stuff.

Sadly, the cats did not rouse me, just the incessant vibrating of my Fitbit alarm.

Sara, I have no farting people near me on my flight. Thank goodness for small favors?

Line of reasoning I apparently consider completely reasonable: it's 10 am and I'm unusually hungry, but that seems too early for lunch, so instead I'll fix myself...a banana split. Just so you know how much weight to give any advice or opinions I might share.

There's dairy and fruit...you're getting at least two food groups, -t.

And sunflower seeds on top! Very healthy.

Our friend with the ovarian cyst had surgery last week. Things turned out to be more complicated than expected, so she's still in the hospital in DC. Her husband, who is also our friend, has been staying with us. We went down to see her earlier this afternoon.

OMG there will be a dragon boat at our harbor tomorrow! That will take people out to try paddling!

I may be making a noise that only dogs can hear.

I'm sorry your friend's condition is more complicated than expected, Sheryl.

My MIL makes a Christmas loaf with ground poppyseed. You understand, it's "not the same" if made with a processor or blender, no, so she grinds the seeds in a mortar to make a paste, spreads it over a lemon-vanilla flavored dough and rolls it up to bake. It's not overly sweet, but good. And once a year, so, special.

FiL used to grind the poppyseeds. They also used to make walnut torte together--he would shell the walnuts (variation: pecans) and she would grind them to powder with a meat grinder, using the ground nut meal as flour for batter to pour into four cake pans. Each layer would be sliced horizontally in half, so eight layers, with whipped coffee-flavored cream filling, and mocha frosting over all. She only made it for birthdays, so it was very special.

I had some work to get done today, including processing an author's response/changes to their edited manuscript (I edit it, my boss approves it, and then I send it to the author and when it comes back in I add the author's changes to the Word doc, and then it's out of my hands).

This was one of the rudest, most condescending-bordering-on-abusive authors I've ever encountered. I'm used to authors who don't like (or aren't used to) changes that we make to AMA style, and request that we change the wording back to the original. (We don't.) Rarely have I dealt with an author who essentially made rude comments about how the editing "ruined the flow of the original wording" and demanded the article be reverted to the original, in addition to mansplaining about italics and flat-out refusing to answer a question that we need an answer to (authors need IRB approval, and if they do not give us the name of the institution they got approval from, we have to ask them for it -- this author replied [I am not making this up] "I think the answer is obvious by the paper." OH HELL NAW, SON. HELL NAW.).

The best, the ABSOLUTE BEST part of this whole ridiculousness? The author of the paper is from Cincinnati (and again I am not lying). I could in theory go find this author and punch him in the throat while I yell the question at him over and over. "Tell!" [punch] "me!" [punch] "the name!" [punch] "of your institution!" [punch] "You supercilious jackhole!" [punch]