Falling Down

[greygirlbeast]

Utter chaos and panic today. Three looming deadlines. Fear I'll break the novel. Fear of word limits. Fear I won't have the collection edited in time. Fear of other looming deadlines, editors, agents, readers. Insomnia. Exhaustion. Fear. Panic. Rage. Money fear. Isolation.

If anyone wants this shitty job, I'm selling cheap.

But still, I have been

Comments

[spank_an_elf]

You will NOT fucking break the novel. You won't. Aunt Beast does not break novels.

Do not fear your readers. Come on, throw yourself into our mosh pit. We will not let you down. Jump. We have you.

Destiny

[rexallen]

You're bound to your destiny by unbreakable causal chains that were forged in the universe's first instant. It's out of your hands, and always has been.

The future has already happened...you're just waiting around to see how it turned out.

Fatalism. Very relaxing. Highly recommended.

[chiropteryx]

*comforting shoulder squeezes*
I felt this through the screen.
Been feeling much the same, for completely different reasons.
For what it's worth, another person caring about you right now.

You're gonna like this

[doctorthoss1]

The most intensely peer-reviewed paper "in the history of science" was released this weekend. Turns out we're not alone!
http://journalofcosmology.com/Life100.html

[doctorthoss1]

I wondered if I'd live to actually see this day, as the new Journal of Cosmology published this over the weekend by a NASA scientists (and already reviewed by 100-plus peers. From the summary:

"Dr. Hoover has discovered evidence of microfossils similar to Cyanobacteria, in freshly fractured slices of the interior surfaces of the Alais, Ivuna, and Orgueil CI1 carbonaceous meteorites. Based on Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy (FESEM) and other measures, Dr. Hoover has concluded they are indigenous to these meteors and are similar to trichomic cyanobacteria and other trichomic prokaryotes such as filamentous sulfur bacteria. He concludes these fossilized bacteria are not Earthly contaminants but are the fossilized remains of living organisms which lived in the parent bodies of these meteors, e.g. comets, moons, and other astral bodies. The implications are that life is everywhere, and that life on Earth may have come from other planets."

[corucia]

Hate to throw cold water on this, but this isn't likely to pan out - the journal's a known crackpot refuge, and I'd be extremely suspicious of anything published there. If this really were correct, it'd be on the cover of Nature or Science, not here.

For a more thorough discussion of the manuscript: http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/03/did_scientists_discover_bacter.php