Today was a pretty typical day, if you discount being woken up at five in the morning by a barking dog who wanted to go out, then nearly missing my train later that morning, and then getting on a subway that was so crowded we were all basically spooning one another. And, of course, this afternoon I received some sad news: one of our authors, on who we’ve been waiting on some revisions, passed away unexpectedly over the weekend. I didn’t know him well at all — I think we spoke directly all of once — but it’s still a huge shock and a loss. He’s co-author is going to try to pull the book together, since it’s actually finished, just not all together in his hands, but obviously and understandably it’s going to be a little delayed.
Plus, I spent the day trying to get some actual work done, so there’s that.
Otherwise, it was, as I said, a pretty typical day.