I inherited my grandmother's wedding china; it's not marked that I remember, but I believe (I've had it packed away for years) that it said either "Bavaria" or "Bohemia" on the bottom. I did snag some of the family silver and some of my mother's good glassware, which I love.

Can melamine dishes go through a dishwasher?

Yes

I think melamine dishes could probably go through an industrial car wash without damage. Or possibly a war zone.

Thanks, Gud! And Toddson!

Steph, I now have some "outside editors" who are giving the authors whatever they ask for in their corrections, requiring me to either change it back to style after the proofs are done, or have to leave it as-is because there's no more time. Authors don't get to decide where the hyphens go! and boy are some authors deeply invested in their hyphenation.

So, the classics librarian job wants me to come to campus for an all day interview despite what I felt was not the world's greatest skype interview. My emotions currently are basically "Yoicks".

Ooh, exciting flea! Where is this?

University of Cincinnati. Where I didn't finish my PhD 16 years ago.

I'ma stab this author, so you all need to provide an alibi. Thanks in advance.

(I am amazed at how many authors think that "editing" means "runs spellcheck and maybe changes minor things like changing numbers that are spelled out into numerals [i.e., "ten" to "10"] but otherwise leaving my precious baby words exactly as they came forth from my pen.")

(Again, to be clear about my rant, sometimes when we edit we do change the intended meaning, and obviously we want to know about that so we can change it back. I know my rants sound like I am the ultimate arbiter of people's words, and that's not true. We want the intended meaning to be clear, above all. But we also have a style that we adhere to, and everyone gets edited. Including Barack Obama. Who I'm SURE didn't throw a hissy fit about being edited.)

That's exciting!! [Edit: flea. Steph's situation is exciting in the bad way.]

maybe changes minor things like changing numbers that are spelled out into numerals [i.e., "ten" to "10"]

When I am in charge of the style guide, numbers ten and under will be written out! I just resisted changing that in someone else's work because I am not in charge of the style guide.