Not the last day. (124)
Warmer weather. A mix of clouds and sun today. A high of 65˚F. Warm December has arrived.
I desperately wanted today to be the last day of work on MP2 before submission to the journal of our choice. I'll tell you which one later. Not yet. I was awake at 3:30 a.m., and I was working a little after 4 a.m. Today, I did nine hours on the paper, with a two-hour gaming break to try and preserve my sanity. Coffee. Red Bull. A pack of gingerbread Pop-Tarts. And it is not done. There's still more tweaking to be done. There's a new Table to write. There's an idea for a very cool Figure 15 that I thought of this afternoon, so Jun and I are gonna try and put it together Monday morning at McWane, a lateral reconstruction of one of the skulls, but it means rephotographing a bunch of the bones, then all the Photoshopping. Jun is the Photoshop guy.
Last night, Kathryn and I saw a fairly decent movie, a nice piece of weird fiction. Not great, but nice. And after the fiasco on The Invitation, it was very welcome. Juston Benson and Aaron Moorhead's Something in the Dirt (2022), which is sorta like a dash of me and Kathe Koja, a little Jeff VanderMeer, and a whole lotta House of Leaves.
Today, I read Lovecraft's "The Lurking Fear."
That was today.
I am so unimaginably tired.
Later Tater Beans,
Aunt Beast
6:09 a.m.
I desperately wanted today to be the last day of work on MP2 before submission to the journal of our choice. I'll tell you which one later. Not yet. I was awake at 3:30 a.m., and I was working a little after 4 a.m. Today, I did nine hours on the paper, with a two-hour gaming break to try and preserve my sanity. Coffee. Red Bull. A pack of gingerbread Pop-Tarts. And it is not done. There's still more tweaking to be done. There's a new Table to write. There's an idea for a very cool Figure 15 that I thought of this afternoon, so Jun and I are gonna try and put it together Monday morning at McWane, a lateral reconstruction of one of the skulls, but it means rephotographing a bunch of the bones, then all the Photoshopping. Jun is the Photoshop guy.
Last night, Kathryn and I saw a fairly decent movie, a nice piece of weird fiction. Not great, but nice. And after the fiasco on The Invitation, it was very welcome. Juston Benson and Aaron Moorhead's Something in the Dirt (2022), which is sorta like a dash of me and Kathe Koja, a little Jeff VanderMeer, and a whole lotta House of Leaves.
Today, I read Lovecraft's "The Lurking Fear."
That was today.
I am so unimaginably tired.
Later Tater Beans,
Aunt Beast
6:09 a.m.