A Rather Significant Milestone

The 19CM submission is really and truly sent off! The various misadventures I went through to get it sent off are fairly uninteresting, and hinted at in the comments sections of the previous post, so won't be related here. And in any case, the important thing is, it's in the mail! And I found only four typos immediately after sending it! Ha ha! For the record, the typos were entirely confined to the footnotes (I think):

• de for der (in a German title)

• Hippcrate for Hippocrate (in a French title)

• concened for concerned (in a newly-written footnote)

and most distressingly:

• Physiolgy for Physiology (in a reference to the title of my own dissertation...)

Well, it's all in the hands of Hepo now. Wish me luck, everyone.

The barbeque was less like an episode of Melrose Place, and more like... I dunno, Brideshead Revisited or something? There was a great deal of tension, but it all remained unspoken and seething beneath the surface. One member of the Bizarre Love Triangle reacted to the tension by talking very very quietly, another reacted to by trying to entertain everyone at the same time, and my friend R— reacted to by drinking himself into a stupor. Meanwhile, the two fifty-something lesbians who had been invited kept everyone on their best behavior, the crowd of twenty-year-old girls, who were friends of a friend and known to no one, just sat around looking awkward and not talking to anyone, and the Israeli attempted to smooth things over with marijuana. I'm pretty sure everyone escaped unscathed. Did I mention that R— made tasty enchilladas? Mmmm...

The weather has cooled down. I'm happy. It doesn't take much...