Waiting for the drugs to kick in...

It's early. I was up about 2 hours earlier than I should have been this morning. But I was ready to go. Today is marathon revision day. I am going to mercilessly hack away at my article until it is....whatever the anonymous reviewers want it to be.

This raises some new questions for me, having never resubmitted to a journal by request. Do they know that their suggestions are off the point or were answered in the first draft? I will of course, make certain points more clear if I can--it's entirely possible that I failed to express myself--but a lot of the questions or suggestions that they had were largely irrelevant: "It seems to me that soldiers could have suffered psychologically from things other than combat." Well, no shit, but the subject of this paragraph is PTSD. Double fucking duh. This is why on the 8th day, God created footnotes.

One of the problems that I see is that they want me to expand on a subject that I am not expert in. I'll be able to fake it, I think, or at least address some points related to the main topic of the article. But honestly, I am having a hard time seeing their vision of the article at this point.

So, better get hacking.

HJ