The proofs are in the pudding

Being lazy, I just tried to copy from my official academic site the exciting news -- I got my page proofs today from Science.  OK, well page proof -- it's a brevium, so only one page, but still, it's pretty damn good.  Anyway, after a lot of problems getting published, it's really great to have some vindication of being a "real" scientist.  I still have papers to revisit that were rejected before, but I'm retooling before resubmitting.  Hopefully I can get past my overwhelming fear of criticism.  Still, it's weird to have a publication record of grey literature and a couple crappy articles in crappy journals, and then, oh yeah, Science.  WTF?