So basically what this guy is saying is that it is more important for him to look smart than to communicate information to his readers.

Poor Zoe. Poor Laura. I'm glad she's going to be okay.

He opened his last email to me with "This is becoming too much work."

"I'm sorry you find being published in a prestigious journal too taxing. Perhaps you can suggest someone else to write a commentary."

My cold has reached the stage in which it hurts to put on my glasses.

Oh, ugh, Ginger. I hate that.

So basically what this guy is saying is that it is more important for him to look smart than to communicate information to his readers.

Ding ding ding!

Oh, Steph... the continual horror that is other people. Can you kick it to senior management along with the email string showing that you tried?

I documented the hell out of it, and all the emails are in the AMA's tracking system, so they can refer to the emails and see that he's being a special snowflake about his precious baby words. I am hoping SO HARD that senior management is all "Fuck you, buddy; these words are coming out."

I just uploaded the "corrected" document, so from this point on, it's out of my hands. If he continues to complain, it will be to someone who is higher on the food chain than me.

He opened his last email to me with "This is becoming too much work."

You know what would make it easier? If he just accepted your edits.

Right??? This yahoo went through the article and made comments in each paragraph, saying "I accept these minor edits if they are journal policy." Every. Single. Paragraph.

So basically what this guy is saying is that it is more important for him to look smart than to communicate information to his readers.

Yup. But senior management may well change it. I hope SO HARD that they do.

Authors love to give the lowly copyeditors all kinds of shit, and then they suddenly turn into compliant little kittens when senior management tells them to shut the fuck up and do it our way. Amazing.

Steph, let me just say your rant was awesome!

• slow clap*

-t, we ought to get the invites any day, so I can go to the website. I know it's not super orthodox.

-t, we ought to get the invites any day, so I can go to the website. I know it's not super orthodox.

Do the people who go there tend to keep kosher, or refrain from driving or using electricity on Shabbat? If not, then there probably isn't much of a dress code other than "Don't dress like you're going out clubbing," but more old-fashioned people (like my mother) would say no bare shoulders.

edited to make sense.

According to the Atlanta paper, tomorrow is International Waffle Day.

This observance began in Sweden, when people confused "varfrudagen," which celebrates the annunciation, (when the angel Gabriel told Mary she would be the mother of Jesus) with "vaffeldagen," which means Waffle Day.

I just nitpicked the wording on Tennessee's new women's suffrage monument, which is lacking an important comma. I should get over myself.

Tennessee's new women's suffrage monument

I read this as women's suffrage MOVEMENT, and was all distressed for a minute that there needed to be a movement anew. Whew.

Hil, some folks keep kosher, and I think few people keep to the Shabbat rules. I think it's on the liberal side of traditional, if that makes sense?

I know the kiddo's fam doesn't keep kosher, except High Holidays - they eat pork and seafood, but won't keep bacon or ham in the house. Eh, whatever!