Progressive

* IRB sent me four suggested revisions on Monday. I sent them back the same day. They promise to "try to turn this around quickly."

* I have a second phone interview set up. Today was sort of an unofficial pre-interview and it went really, really well.

* David Sedaris is feeling snarky about undecided voters:

I look at these people and can't quite believe that they exist. Are they professional actors? I wonder. Or are they simply laymen who want a lot of attention?

To put them in perspective, I think of being on an airplane. The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and, eventually, parks it beside my seat. "Can I interest you in the chicken?" she asks. "Or would you prefer the platter of shit with bits of broken glass in it?"

To be undecided in this election is to pause for a moment and then ask how the chicken is cooked.