More like calm before the flurry of happy activities.

I've been here before. I'm in between handing in a revision and waiting for my book release next month. It's a time when everything seems to slow down. And then all of a sudden, bam! Everything starts at once and I can hardly get any laundry done. So when the dryer ate all of my quarters yesterday and there was this whole production of going out for more quarters and waiting for the timer to run out so I could try the other dryer and it ju