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Moments of Pedantic Meander

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I should be grading, or finishing my next book due to press . . . but I haven't dicked around on this blog in nearly a month, and I need to brain dump.  On what, I have no idea.  Normally I sit down and shit -- often shit  I should squirrel away from in sheer embarrassment--just pours forth for your reading enjoyment.  Tonight, I have little of anything swarming in my deluded and deranged mind.  Okay, well I do . . . but it concerns the page margins, rules for citations in Chicago Manual of Style, and how much I hate the hell of press formatting.  Yet, why do I do it? I'm  a vain bitch who loves seeing her name in print.  On the cover of a book is even better.  This isn't my first time at the name on the book cover rodeo, so you think I would have a system down.  I do.  But, sadly, my pocketbook and health would revolt at that much bourbon.  Though, I wonder if there is enough to drown me on this side of the Miss...