Tuesday 20 April 2010

The computorized proofs came back. Finally. After 9 weeks. Of course they did - I was just  about to throw in a towel and give up on seeing the book published this year and had started another. Know what it's like switching between one project and another? It's like training figure skating for a very long while very intensely and putting everything that you are into one Olympics, and when it's done, you're high-strung, worn out and triumphant. And you move on and start training, say, judo or something. And you start getting the grip on it and just when you get very good at it, very focused, sacquiring a whole new motorics, omeone comes and asks you if you could jump in and compete in one more figure skating gig...