Just got a rejection. It was done tactfully, and it was from the surreal-or-the-highway crowd which isn't me anyway, but it hit me at a bad time. This story has been rejected twice now, and I thought it was a cracker :-(
That was followed up by stumbling across a negative review of my first story, Elf Esteem. The reviewer thought it had been written only for the punch line- I didn't think of it until the end! She also threw in phrases like "tedious","go nowhere","very familiar ground","awkward" and "uninteresting". My current state of depression really needed that. Other reviewers loved the story so I shouldn't take it to heart I guess, but I'm not exactly bursting with motivation right now.

Two good things though:
-I can just afford to get down to Canberra for the Outcast pre-launch party.
-Someone emailed me to say they found my flash drive! I'd say it's Restored My Faith In Human Nature(tm), but if human nature was that good this wouldn't be a remarkable event, would it?