You can't run through treacle

Amazing news: I have my article accepted for publication in Adaptive Behaviour. I should have been over the moon, but I found myself getting quite anxious. I can tell this because last night I had a classic anxiety dream. I was due to give a presentation and it was being built up more and more, but I had forgotten to put the presentation on my laptop, so I had to rush back to get it, being way-laid and held-up at every turn. Like running through treacle. I don't get this kind of thing a lot so it must have been down to the news.

The reason I am so negative about it is something those in the media spotlight might know something about: bad reviews. 2 negative reviews out of 4. Which would not be bad except that the points they made were the ones that have been troubling me anyway.

Worse, I need to send a final version, answering all reviewers comments, by January 1st. That is going to wreck my family's christmas. Not mine because I am miserable at Xmas anyway, but theirs because I'll end up making it a misery for them too.