"The night, presaged by a dying sun. The life and times of ascent and fall." (127)

Dec 05, 2022 17:19

Horribly rainy all day. Our high was 61˚F. The whole week is looking that way. Rainy, but at least it's going to be warmer, with highs in the low 70s˚F.

I think I am profoundly depressed.

Some of it is this paper, that we simply seem unable to finish. I was at McWane about two hours today, and Jun and I have all the figures - I hope that all of them - ready to go. They actually look splendid. This journal has no limit on the number of illustration and they can be in color. Now, I just have to be happy enough with the text to tend the damn thing in, so I can go back to work on what pays the bills. Really, we might be missing a crisis.

So, there was that.

Not much else.

But yeah, profoundly depressed. As I just said on Twitter, The plioplatecarpine paper is "almost" finished. Almost. I think it will be important. I think it will be worth a year of my life. But I have reached a point where I am well and truly sick of those two poor lizards.

Really. More than a year of my life. How many short stories and novellas well never be written because of this? I mean, I'm not sure I care, but...it's lost revenue I could not afford to loose.

Oh, something I said yesterday on Twitter that was surprisingly popular, especially with university professors: My message to all those undergrad and grad students hoping to be full-time pro paleontologists: Have *good* plan Bs and Plan Cs, because odds are you'll need them. I have spent most of my adult life on my Plan B (fiction), doing paleontology when life allows. Do not fear options.

There was a fairly hilarious and unproductive bit today where Jun tried, to no real avail, to teach me track changes in MS Word, which I hate on principle.

But yeah, depression. The suicidal ideations.

I just didn't need the damn rain.

Please, look at the Big Cartel shop. Thank you. And getting started early, here's my Xmas wishlist at Amazon.

Later Tater Beans,
Aunt Beast



12:10 p.m.

loss, mp2, jun ebersole, money, twitter, paleontology, mcwane center, plans, rain, computer stuff, warm december, editing, 2022, depression, proofreading, . mcwane, exhausted, mosasaurs, then vs. now

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