There will be a slight delay

?!

Talks, conferences, workshops, trips overseas, grant applications...

and finding a new position.

Grants! Pah! You just have to write them, I get to crush evaluate them.

Surely you won't need a grant, you'll be able to live off the earnings from your book.

Bob

Ah, right Bob. Sure I will. Why didn't I think of that?

<sotto voce>Sob!</sotto voce>

Hmmm. Perhaps you need to spice it up a bit. Remove the serious arguments, through in a few gratuitous insults ("Mallet's ideas were so bad that I had to adopt an incontinent dog, just so the paper would be useful for something") and give it a snappier title - "Mayrless"?

Then you just need to decide what the front cover will look like.

Bob

I will use that insult sometime. Not in the book though...

Then you just need to decide what the front cover will look like.

Oh thank you very much -- now I've got this image of Wilkins (the real one, not the albino gorilla avatar) wearing a low-cut, high-hem black dress AND a blond wig, stuck in my mind.

Oh thank you very much -- now I've got this image of Wilkins (the real one, not the albino gorilla avatar) wearing a low-cut, high-hem black dress AND a blond wig, stuck in my mind.

That's actually physically painful to contemplate.

Ha! Now I just have to pose for it. It's not the first time I've been in a low cut high hem black dress. 'Course, I had a beard then too...