Oh, God, not 'back to normal', anything but that ;-)

llater,

llamas

Hah -- love you for that.

It's been exhausting. Have barely left the house for a year. But Gregg's been wonderful, getting me food, cooking me dinner. Like bringing food to the prisoner, but believe me, I'm grateful and I love what this book has turned out to be. Hardest thing I've ever written -- and the best.

We're looking forward to it! When will the book be out?

So how are going to decompress?

I had a year work assignment that was so stressful I was waking up every hour or so to leave myself notes about what had to happen over the next few days w/different company departments and different companies.

Awful. Should have taken a month off afterwards but needed to "save" my real job (Management got promoted to other departments and new bosses resented my absence).

Take a vacation for at least 2 weeks even it's staying at home, sleeping late, and going for a coffee/pastry in the morning.

The floggings will continue until morale improves.

And speaking of new books, don't forget to add Rachel Dolezal's new memoir "In Full Color: Finding My Place in a Black and White World" to your reading list.

Because when I think "Gee, I need to fill up on bullshit from a batshit-crazy race-addled nitwit", I think "Rachel Dolezal".

http://www.900chml.com/syn/123/21886/rachel-dolezal-talks-about-life-as-a-black-woman-in-memoir-in-full-color

Still rockin' the not-dreads and spray tan, too. You go, girl.

Old R P M, thanks -- January 2018.

I just emailed my agent the book.

SUCH A THRILL!

I love this book so much, and I hope it makes a difference for people.

Oh, and Bob, I'm doing a TED talk on Saturday, so I'm going to "press" -- all week, memorizing the thing along with writing my column for next week. I need to have it memorized to my core, so if I get nervous, I won't forget it or skip bits.

I took tonight off for formatting! (The book.)

And Bob, sorry you went through that. The truth is, I have to put my life back together in a number of ways and work on getting speaking engagements, so I can't quite slow down. But I've been basically working 5 a.m. into the evening every night for at least a year, and about as crazily before that. I have barely left the house, gone anywhere, talked to anyone, or seen anyone. So even a night to go out with a friend or dinner out with Gregg somewhere or just a slightly relaxed pace will be a wonderful luxury.

And then I have to do any edits on the book and turn it back in!

I was two months late on top of my earlier extension, so my editor probably needs to get this back to me pretty fast.

Anyway, thanks for the good wishes. I can't wait for people to read this -- and maybe, just maybe, make big positive changes in their lives.