Okay, it's the first post after a break, and the last thing written was about being published? Good grief, when did that happen? It must be a clerical error, a compilation of all the conspiratorial obstacles that were pushed up against its ever happening, including one of the authors' names still being wrong on the first online offprints. The sheer number of things that get un-fixed after final submission is astounding. Beware the typesetting process, people out there who might be considering getting published in the future, beware.
Coming back from a break is usually a very refreshing experience. There's something liberating about getting out and about in a place where no-one knows you, where you don't get compared or sometimes forced into some already established persona that everyone expects. It's nice to spend time with friends, or play five games of pool solitaire in the diversions centre, or even spin on the spot for no reason. These are all good things. Oh, society, you really must stop programming people to conform at all costs. It's not healthy, and you're only making future money for therapists and chocolate ice cream makers. Anyway, breaking those patterns is wonderful, especially if you can carry the refreshing new flexibility over into the life that waits back in the gloom of routine.
In alternate news, Film Bin is closed down. We made two hundred and six total postings, including a few announcements, and that's not bad. It never really turned out to be quite what I wanted at the outset, and sometimes just ended up being about wallpaper and people's hair, but it was a good thing to try and sets a good pattern for improvement in the future. So, thanks go out to the Film Bin Crew for a fine job done. Now it's time to refocus on the ultimate challenge of writing about things at very little notice and with almost no plan, here on the Quirky Muffin.
Ah, the Muffin, that grand undefined project, that internal challenge to write and keep on writing, and somehow allow self expression without dropping into maudlin sentimentality and ludicrous personal detail.
O.
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