You know what sucks the most about freelancing?? The fact that you can give your all to a magazine, pass up terrific assignments because of your loyalty to one particular editor, work your butt off doing every conceivable thing for them, and in the end if there is a situation where they have to choose between you and a completely incompetant staffer, they will always choose the latter. It hurts - it actually, physically hurts!! I think there are going to be big changes going to be made in my writing portfolio over the coming weeks....