Something I probably should not have read

It's clearly a different pubblishing milieu, but this post at the Cranky Editors community is one of the most depressing things I've ever read.

Quote: "Having your paper accepted nearly a year ago does not constitute any sort of emergency on my part nor does it mean I should give a rat's ass."

So, the person writes a paper, submits it to the journal, gets an acceptance letter, and then? A year later, the author's not supposed to care?

I imagine this must be in a non-timely field, but ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Do editors in other fields feel proportionately similarly about their writers?

I must immediately think about something else. Not, however, leftover Halloween candies that happen to also be lucky New Year candies, okay?

on other fronts: I'm not doing Nano, am I, because I started working on Bella and Chain months ago? And also I don't care how long it takes me to finish it, except that I want to be done soon so I can write more stuff.

Hotties of Harm Reduction

This is another story about my dad. He's in the big group picture and in the couple picture labelled "HIV doesn't discriminate." The woman with him is my step mom, Moher Downing.

Off to buy groceries now. It looks like rain, but the forecast says no.