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When I awoke this morning (well, technically yesterday morning), there were 469 emails in my magazine inbox waiting to be dealt with. I set a goal of getting that number down by 100, but I decided I would settle for getting to a round 400 (thereby dealing with 69). Right now, I have 348 in that box, and I don't know how many came in today (I dealt with some of those, as well), so I dealt with (answered or filed or deleted, as warranted) in excess of 121 emails today. A few more days of that and the slush pile will be caught up to date, as will responses to subscribers and current contributors. That'd be nice.

And mad thanks go out to stonebender, who has been doing crack first-reader duty, saving me from a good chunk of the first passes on the fiction and nonfiction end.

Now I just want to spend a few minutes paying the last of the Spring contributors, since mail-out day is coming in just a few days, and then I'm gonna collapse and sleep for as long as I can force my body to agree to.

Shameless self-promotion

This is probably a good time to remind those of you who plan to submit to the magazine that I would love to see your submissions. We plan to read year-round, but I'm already filling up the Fall issue (fiction and poetry for Summer are full; we could use more visual art, multimedia if you have it, and an illustration job or two). So c'mon. :-)

http://42magazine.com/submit.php

And if you wanna subscribe, the thing ships next week, so now's a great time:

http://42magazine.com/subscribe.php

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I'm still up. It's 6am. I wonder if iodine is a stimulant.

Notes

1) Paid someotherguy last night for the article he gave me for the magazine. He's taking us out to lunch on the money. That there's what you call a win-win situation.

2) My trip to see my mom (April 10-14) approaches, and her great excitement over seeing me is almost matched by mine over seeing her. It's been wayyyyyy too long.

3) Yes, #1 means I am now allowed to be out in public and stuff, but still no fluid swapping, and no sleeping together for eight hours at a stretch, etc.

4) Took my thyroid pill today!

5) And my pain pill!