So torpedo's away--it's been a hectic while

What with the bro-ham in town for break it was difficult to get very much, much to the neglected chagrin of Wifey, who at least was amply allowed-for, but the real casualty was my paper-writing--but at least after twenty-drafts the textbook-article has been mailed off, which involved a frantic run at the last minute to the disappointingly small post office at Queens Plaza amid priority mailing via internet postage and editing in the midst of classes which I found to be most disruptive and attacky today, while there was one group of students that had the gall to show up to class half an hour late, complete with evidence of their extra-campusal foray.

I'm exhausted. My kendo has suffered. Promotion can now be my real goal, other than this short term annoyance of a paper which is somehow still due on wednesday, but which has been shaping all right, although I've not put in as much effort and planning as last time, which seems so long ago. But the editorial process is fun--it's just a little hard to fully imagine what it would be like to take a full load again, and seriously.