Some thoughts (and additional statistics) re: my thousandth short story rejections

If I had a nickel for every rejection I've gotten, I'd have...$50 (and fifteen cents) Well, it finally happened. I got my one thousandth rejection! And then I got three more. And now I have 1,003. And I'm too lazy to temporarily delete the last three, so all of the below will be the numbers for 1,003 rejections. I started submitting on Dec. 20th, 2003 …