After reading Tim Z's post, I just had to write my own - as a colleague dared me to share this (although to be precise, he dared me to write it in the form of a law review article rather than a blog post).
Like Tim, I too, had several articles out for review this season. A few weeks ago, I had a dream nightmare that I became deathly ill in the middle of the submission season and was unable to continue expediting my pieces. In the dream, I asked a colleague (the one who dared encouraged me to write this) if he would take over the expediting process for me. He kindly did so and placed both pieces, but he couldn't remember where he had placed them and couldn't find any record of his communications with the journals. He knew the articles were going to be published in the fall, but the doctors said I wouldn't make it that long. So I was left knowing that I was going to die without ever finding out if I had finally cracked the Top 10. Needless to say, I didn't crack the top 10 on this occasion, but I would like to thank the articles editors at both journals I placed with (they know who they are) for the truly thoughtful reviews of my work, particularly the editors who did a quick read over their spring break when they should have been otherwise enjoying themselves. I have had plenty of those crazy rejection letters myself - my record this time was about 18 hours - but I do want to shout out to all those editors who have as crazy a time as we do in this ridiculous process.
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