My editor's reply

I just received a reply from my editor, which read in part:

Don't sweat [the job]. There's still lots, lots of wiggle room in the schedule. If we're ever on a hard-and-fast deadline I'll always be very clear about it. This isn't one of those cases, so please don't worry about funnybooks. Even a little bit.

Spend time with your family, and please, take care.

*falls over with relief*

I am so lucky to have two editors who have been understanding about how my mother's six-months-or-less prognosis has impacted my ability to create. Hopefully as time goes on I'll be able to cope with it better. Right now, I find my mind keeps wandering to all kinds of questions -- will she get the apartment in my building? how/when will I need to arrange for palliative care? what will her last days be like? -- when I really should be concentrating on work, and it's very hard to stay on-track.

Wonder Woman and the Phallic Menace

Wonder Woman and the Phallic Menace -- see it here.

Hilarious stuff indeed.

Oh, and I'm now a volunteer expert over at Allexperts.com. Whee.

I think I'll take the rest of the evening off since I finished 7 more pages of the current MM project this afternoon and now have until the end of the week to do the remaining 14 pages. Scream Television is showing the 1975 version of The Stepford Wives at 10:30, which I've heard is pretty good and sounds mindless enough to suit me right now.