i was SO proud of myself this last weekend for putting together and sending out poetry submissions to 4 literary magazines. and of course now, days later, while i'm sitting here in a bad mood ranting and raving in my head i realize... that all but one of them had pre-stamped return envelopes from BEFORE the stamp cost change. ugh. if the people really want to publish my stuff, i'm sure they'll find me by email, phone, or adding stamps. but chances are, i won't get rejection slips back. which sounds like a positive thing, i mean, who wants rejection slips in the mail. but it also means, i won't know when the magazine is done with them, and won't know when it's safe to send the poems to a different magazine for consideration. shit.