writing week

Kate Turabian is the devil. Seriously. There has never been a more complicated, less intuitive and insidiously wide spread format for documenting papers EVER. And besides that Turabianites (Turabian knights as they are also called, mainly by me) can't even agree with how to update the bleeding thing for websites and online journals. AND can any one tell me WHY the first footnote format is different from the Bibliography format? And the most contentious point, to me at least, is the placement of the commas. They put freaking commas everywhere, they SNEEZE commas onto the page at seemingly random intervals, and woe to you if you should put a period instead of a comma, the scroll is burned. I feel the pain of the Masoretes. I also am suffering from way too many Turabian nights spent tediously formatting. SEE! See what she has reduced me to! PUNS for crying out loud! What a world, what a world.