Cranky

An unfortunate combination of factors has caused me to have my rating downgraded at one of my writing gigs. This should be filling me with fear and despair, since it's been the primary gig for the past couple months. Currently, however, I am just really irritated at AP style. It, and its abhorrence of the common comma, are responsible for this downgrade, and I am going to have to do terrible things to my writing style in order to get the rating back up. Screw you, AP stylebook. We work on computers now and we don't have to smash every possible bit of punctuation out of our text so the typesetters can make column width.

Grr.