So weird. I came into work and immediately had two requests for my specific expertise, one on an ancient product I'm one of the few people to remember and one on a case where I did something cool but which I didn't fully document and had to remember. I got to explain an advanced technique to a new hotshot.

People are noticing me! Make it stop!

License plate, parked near the NE Bar Assoc.: LWYR

I'm on hold with Expedia trying to change a flight because I need to take a work trip to Toronto, and I may as well fly there from Michigan rather than coming back to San Francisco first.

United, I haaaaaate you.

I hear too many times people having to take roundabout routes because of airline foolishness.

At this point I'm just trying to cancel my return flight so I can book a flight to Toronto on another airline, but there doesn't seem to be a good way to do that without canceling my entire reservation. Which of course is a stupid thing an airline would do, because plans never change, right?

yes Peeps! although ... now that you mention it? ... hmmm.

NO. Peeps. I am a good person.

Here's an accusation about my editing from an author that I haven't heard before: it's a tiny (2-page) commentary on a big research article, and the author is part of the Department of Defense (the big research article used active military members for their study, so the DoD is involved).

The author of the article said that I made "an unprecedented amount" of changes to her commentary, and it would require a week of new review by the DoD because -- I swear she said this -- "the changes could be damaging to the Department of Defense."

GUYS. YOU GUYS. I think I know how to take down the Trump administration. I'll sneak in through the DoD with my wily editing skillz! (Seriously. My editing to her tiny commentary could be *damaging* to the DoD??? If that's true, our country's military is is grave danger.)

This author made sure to copy the editor-in-chief on her email so I could see that she was pissed and was making sure the higher-ups knew it. (I mean, I respect that level of pettiness, but still.)

About 20 minutes later, the editor-in-chief replied to the author (and copied me) and said "Respectfully, these changes are neither extensive nor surprising for our journal's high standards, and I do not believe they will be damaging to the DoD. Your commentary is already overdue, so please answer the editor's queries and return it today so that it will not be pulled from publication."

I want to print this email out and fucking frame it. Getting vindication from the editor in chief is like a drug!

Wait Teppy are you saying the key to undoing the damage caused by the 2016 election is...correct punctuation and properly formatted citations? HOLY SHIT BUFFISTAS THIS IS WHAT WE'VE BEEN TRAINING FOR

WOO, Teppy Validation!!!!