A scenario

First of all ... I've finished the essay I had to do for the course I've finished!

Secondly, a scenario ... Imagine you are a professor. You have been researching a particular area for a while, and you are looking forward to publishing your findings since it's an area that there has been no previous research in. At least, nothing in the public domain. You occasionally lecture about your area of interest, as professors do. One day, you open a newspaper and discover that a book, or a display, or a conference, is being published or held, in a month's time, about your area of interest. Can you imagine how frustrating that might be? But unfortunately these things happen, as can be recalled most recently in the case of Colm Toibin and David Lodge, who both wrote biographical novels about Henry James in 2004. Now imagine you realised that someone who worked at that publishing house, or that firm, attended your lectures for a while ... even more annoying, isn't it?! A coincidence or not? You decide ...

Could be a story for a book in there, perhaps? I'll wait until November and NaNoWriMo to find out!

Still.

Best think, at least, about getting some marking done ... or else go to bed.