I assume they have all of his phones locked in that basement cell in the Pentagon where they kept Magneto in whichever X-men movie that was.

He's probably going from staffer to staffer demanding to use their phones.

Thanks, Scola. So cute!

My mom is doing well recovery-wise, except she has a lot of nausea (pain meds can do that), so they had to give her some heavy-duty nausea meds and it's making her really groggy and sleep a lot. Which is fine, because sleeping is good for recovery. EXCEPT. She needs to eat, and just can't eat right now. She had 1 bite of jello and less than half of a Greek yogurt. Like, that's all she's had all day. I think it's all she's had since Tuesday night. But hopefully the nausea meds will get her past this so that she can eat.

Therapy was hard and awful and between that and being at the hospital for hours AND a fucking migraine, I have zero ability to cope left, so naturally I came home to a work shitstorm thanks to an author threatening to pull their article unless their pie chart is put back in their article (we don't publish pie charts. EVER. I don't know why, but we don't). My coordinator knew I was going to be at the hospital today, so I'm ignoring my email and hoping he'll handle it. Because I am bug-eyed with the inability to cope right now. Like, I might just cry for an hour because I can't cope with one more thing.

On the good side, I just got excellent tickets for a PMJ concert that's on Halloween, and the new Skulduggery Pleasant book arrived. But I might just cry for a while.

Heh, I read the email from the angry author more closely, and she used the sentence "My readers expect no less than this figure from an article authored by me."

So, 1. She presumably typed that with a straight face. Somebody thinks SUPER highly of herself. And 2. She thinks "her readers" expect a fucking PIE CHART? I mean, pie charts are, basically, remedial medical figures. The complexity of the articles that the AMA publishes is not pie-chart level. Pie charts are a way of saying "Here are 5 categories and the percentages for each category. I could have just put this in a sentence in the article but I think a pie chart is fancier and I need tenure."

This author is pretentious as hell. Oh my god. I feel like I can summon some energy to email her, because she needs to know that she needs to back the truck up and take her fucking pie chart with her.

You're pretty passionate about pie charts.

But apparently not as passionate as this author.

It is my fond hope that you be permitted to send the author this in response: [link]

She presumably typed that with a straight face.

I assume they wait for each issue of the journal with bated breath, praying it will bring another installment of their favorite author's work.

Wow, pie flashback.

When come back, bring pie chart.