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Exhaustion and esteem elevated
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Yesterday I worked another insane day. I started around 11am, and finished around 4am this morning. I took two breaks for about an hour to eat and socialize, but that’s about it. I managed to get a ton of work done, and made all the changes James asked for. I also got the cover and introduction layouts finished, and most of the table-of-contents (I can’t finish it entirely until all the pages are complete, because I won’t know what page numbers to associate to the chapters/sub-chapters).

While I was laying out the introduction I actually decided to read it for the first time. I was surprised to see me mentioned as the first acknowledgment, and pleased to see my efforts don’t go unnoticed.

“I wish to express my gratitude and thanks to all my students for the feedback so necessary for refinement, in teaching and ultimately in this book. A special acknowledgment and gratitude to student Eric Clark for his efforts and talents in creating this book’s computer drawings, a massive undertaking in content and interpretation of hand sketches.”

I also noticed there is a spot reserved for me to list a personal url and some other minor info, so I’ve decided to register a domain and setup a site (hopefully with Jon’s expert help) to act as a portfolio and means for potentially procuring more design work. I’m not sure I want to do more books, but more modeling would be awesome.

I plan to finish the whole thing this afternoon, but right now I’m procrastinating. I slept in this morning, but I either didn’t get enough sleep, or last night’s Mandarin isn’t agreeing with me because my guts and head are killing me.

*The above image is not the book’s cover, but it will be something very similar.

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