Imagethief

Imagethief would like to apologize to all readers who are wondering if I have been, perhaps, hit by a train or mauled to deathy by wiener dogs (you have to watch out for those wiener dogs, they're much more dangerous than they look). I have been in a stretch of what we in the PR agency biz refer to as "hell". During this phase, my work has spread, amoeba-like, to consume nights and weeekends. With spectacular timing, I also had two magazine article deadlines in the same stretch. Now, as much as love writing this blog, a simple analysis will reveal the reason for scarce posting of late:

Task	Compensation	Penalty for non-delivery
Day job	$$$$	Fired, pennyless, ejected from country
Magazine articles	$, ego boost	Angry editors, ruined reputation
Paying attention to Mrs. Imagethief	Sex life, companionship	Divorce, sexual frustration
Blogging	Zilch	Zilch

Not, of course, to make my readers feel like they aren't a priority. They simply don't have the whip hand, as it were.

Fortunately the  schedule is beginning to ease up again. Barring disaster I should have more time for posting in the next week or two. And, really, blogging has its compensations too, although they are perhaps less tangible.

-Will

Update: Disaster has struck. I am now sick (although, for the moment, still at work). This often happens to me after a spell of working nights and weekends. I blame the goddamn salad bar at an American chain restaurant downstairs from my office. I should have known better than patronize a salad bar while my immune system was weakened by overexposure to PowerPoint radiation.