yrmencyn | Zachary Richard emerges from the woodwork

It's like the clouds opened up. It's like a huge weight has been lifted from my chest. I finally got an email from Zachary Richard today. Background: I am translating an Entire Copyrighted Work. This goes WAY beyond the already fuzzy legal boundaries of free use, so per university guidelines and for my own comfort I need a written authorization. Well, he's been in Canada and out of touch, and I've got deadlines breathing down my neck, so I was getting stressed, more stressed than I realized. So now I'm very happy. I would be happier with actual paper, rather than a bloody email printout, but it'll do if it must. I'm still hoping to be able to ask him questions and get constructive responses, but if this is all I get I'll take it.

This almost makes up for the fact that I've gotten to the endpages of the book, and it's full of long, complex multipage poems that give me a headache. And make no bloody sense. Hence I need to talk to the actual author. Arg. But still, a net yay!

[BTW, sorry Iowa City: Iowa doesn't want me in their program. This is, of course, a grievous error on their part, but not one I can really change. Now just to hear from LSU and Indiana, both of which I suspect will admit me. Score: Mike 1, short-sighted schools who don't know what they're missing 2]