How does this happen?

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I suddenly (it seems suddenly, anyway) have a whole cluster of Stuff happening in the last couple of weeks of February and the first couple of weeks of March.

Partly this is due to confluence of work-related events in which I am involved, and personal academic-interest related events, which are all, of course, being organised by people who are not in consultation with one another. Not to mention person finally coming back to me about a conference they approached me about last September and then went so silent I wondered if it was happening at all, asking for a title, stat.

Plus, a person on my kinship network asking me to do something with an end of Feb deadline.

I can haz AAAAAAAAARGH???

Not being able to go to the Springtime in the Rockies conference is looking more and more like a relief rather than a disappointment (at least, I am disappointed, but am more and more thinking that this is a year in which I do not need that extra hassle).

At least a couple of these things don't seem to require me to write a formal paper, just to engage in Learned Exchanges with other scholars.

Nonetheless:

AAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGHHHH.