"Murder your darlings": darling strikes first

The latest story-in-the-world seems determined to give me a heart attack (acting out because I sent it away?). First with confusion over timezones, deadlines, and daylight saving time. Then just now, when my dad looked up from the printed copy and said, "I assume the last page was deliberate?"

Um, maybe? No, as it turned out. The last couple of sentences of the story all looked something like this: $>_e_0c__!osaaS=aL5O%E_+!vE)- (except with more accents, mathematical symbols, and inscrutable boxes). Cue hurried checking of the version sent. Last page normal.

I always knew my printer operated on the misanthropic principle. I just never thought it would pull more than passive-aggressive job duplicates on me.