After Britti's wedding, I launched, full steam ahead, into finishing up a book project on celebrity health narratives. The book had been in the pipeline for nearly 17 years, but the project really got rolling when I amassed a team of four other people (three former grad students and one new colleague) as co-authors. We landed a contract with McFarland Publishers in March, 2013, and the book was due on May 15, 2014. Unfortunately, I couldn't really do what I needed to do in April because of the wedding so every second of my life after the wedding (except when I was doing something with another kid, finishing up classes, starting online classes, and co-organizing the 8th grade graduation party, of course) on the book. After weeks of not really sleeping and eating, I was FINALLY able to send the book to the publisher. What an amazing sense of relief!!! It's a good book, but, after the intensity of the preceding year, relief was the best way to describe my emotions in fulfilling (albeit late) our contractual agreement :)
