Reculer pour mieux sauter?

The week before last I was rather on a roll, I thought, in terms of getting somewhat forrader on various projects in the pipeline -

And then last week I was drooping around feeling a rather sad miz weary hedjog, due to sleeping badly, which was mostly due to the achey bits deciding to be particularly achey or flaring up after having long been quiescent, which was tiresome.

(I do not entirely acquit sitting with my laptop literally in my lap for a Zoom seminar for some of that.)

Or maybe, having been looking back over neiges d'antan, I just had a recurrent case of The Time of Year, and those previous occasions when I diagnosed the cause as Whatever Was Going Round at the time were actually to do with the season both as such and for personal history reasons.

There were also various annoying small accidents.

But, anyhow, things have shifted somewhat (several decent nights' sleep may have something to do with it) and I have tinkered about with expanding conference paper for chapter in edited volume and also done substantial work on the bibliography thing, as well as reading the book I volunteered myself to review because I did not think it was going to be so much of Same Old, sigh.

Also Story moved on somewhat after stalling a bit.