I'm in a better mood now.

I got the "galley proof" (a .pdf file. Not quite as romantic as how they used to do it) of my most recently-accepted paper this morning. It's always so...I don't know, so heartening, or something, to see the thing you wrote finally typeset and in "real" form, rather than manuscript form.

I printed off a copy and tacked it up on our "bragging wall" - where we put up things like grant acceptances and newly published papers. I'm not QUITE self-promotional enough to stop people and go, "Hey, did you see my latest paper?" but hopefully someone will notice it up there.

This one was nearly 2 years in going to press, thanks in part to reviewer delays. (That said - I was spared Reviewer 3's comments, because Reviewer 3 never got around to it. And supposedly the old legend is that it's Reviewer 3 who always screws you over in the paper-acceptance process.)