*@&!!! Book Proposals!

OK, ok, look: book proposals suck. Writing them sucks. They take ForEvEr and ever, and gah!, they are tedium incarnate. Summarize, transition, summary, transition, insert motif here to make this thing look like we cared about writing it. Spike through forehead? We'll have a round here, thanks.

Now, we over here at the Department of Very Much Would Like To A Walk know that you over there in the Department of Service to Ambition and the Common Good are only making us do this because it is absolutely necessary. We know. We just can't be happy about it.

We are also aware that you in the DSACG are not wholly at fault. It did, oh it did, seem as the Editor Cat was playing nicely, but what was also happening was that he was stringing this process along a bit. This made you scared. This made you want a proposal right hot now because IF Editor Cat flakes or backs out, the whole Creative Department is going to be scared, and then getting revisions will be, well, hard to get. So, we know, we need this proposal not only prod Editor Cat into play, but to mail off Elsewhere should he not.

So, instead of letting us over here at DVMLTAW do our thing, or even just write something smart and beautiful (like the rest of our essay for said book), you insisted that we get the proposal together and ASAP goddammit.

Sigh. Fine. That was our whole and entire Saturday, from 10 am to now. And we are, by the gods, going for a walk.