Weird, and Practicality

I had an old-fashioned deadline to revise an academic article in order for it to become a book chapter, which was OK until I learned that I'd need to edit out 3000 words. It's in PDF format, almost impossible to change without conversion software, and I don't even have an up-to-date version of Word any more. I respectfully wrote to the editors yesterday saying that I would not be able to do it; I also no longer have any sort of institutional support. This morning, they offered me a person to help- so it will happen. Clunky ancient laptop on the point of dying, I'm dependin' on you son.I shouldn't be procrastinating at this point but actually I'm taking a breather. I listened to yesterday's song and I'm actually jealous of it! How stupid is that? But it just came rolling out like a steam train. In my night time song terrors, I decided the song that it sounds like is too similar (it's not, really), and that I should revise the original one. This is not a bad thing. I started to write…