Not that I need an excuse to not post anything here during any given three month period, since that's pretty much my habit anyway...but it's been getting worse than usual, right?
To put it as ambiguously as possible, the mechanics at the office lately are like...like the springtime breakup of Arctic pack ice. Everything is shifting and morphing around you (with loud scary noises). And there are all these Eskimos racing around willy-nilly, and every now and then a sled team goes sloshing into a frigid crevice somewhere. Of course off in the distance, there's the odd Polar Bear stranded on a seabound ice floe. And then you've also got the weird Ice Age 2 neanderthal squirrels running around trying to rescue their collective nuts. And over there, on the absolute wrong hemisphere of the earth, you've got Robert Scott eating his horses.
But what's new.
The other thing is, I'm also on a 3 week countdown to final manuscript submission for an astronomy related book I'm co-authoring with 4 other folks. It's been getting really stressful to say the least. Six months ago when I was writing my first drafts, it was all breezy and carefree. But now in the end stretch, I'm glued to this computer every spare minute trying to edit sentence after sentence to be as clear, fluid and understandable as possible. It's not like the Hee-Haw garbage I churn out here, it's semi-technical, so I can't screw around as much. :'( It's one thing to write passionately about something, but molding it for wide audience and shaving the chingers off of it is hard work. I'm looking forward to the end result, and maybe I'll reminisce more about it later, but I'm pretty much wiped out for now.
Also, next hair cut appointment, I'm getting buzzed. :D
Dude, you rule!