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Also, an interesting opinion piece on the history of religious hysteria in America...

My birthday is in a few months. I want everyone on the Internet to pitch in and buy me one of these. I will love you all forever.

I am busy and productive! I am working on a shitload of artwork for a book on the history of life, the paper revising the lithostratigraphy of the northern part of PEFO, a larger scope Upper Triassic stratigraphy paper (both with Bill Parker), and my dissertation chapter on the lithostratigraphy of the Dockum Group. The PEFO vertebrate biostratigraphy chapter for the SVP dinosaur origins volume is revised and sent back; it will rock quite nicely and help get Late Triassic vertebrate biochronology on more firmly scientifically testable ground. I also finished my field mapping revisions for the PEFO geologic map, a project I've been working on with Lisa Skinner and Paul Umhoefer at NAU; they have been incorporated into the electronic geo-rectified version, and it will eventually get published (somewhere) once the north end revisions are published. Bill and I also wrapped up a couple condensed synthesis papers on park lithostratigraphy and vertebrate paleontology for the upcoming SEPM paleosol conference being held at PEFO in a couple weeks; these are basically gray literature, but we will probably merge and expand them into a nice readable synthesis on Chinle lithostratigraphy, paleontology, and geochronology once...certain other papers which we are marginally involved with get published.

I bought myself this mug. If I get submittable drafts of my current slate of papers done by the end of the year, I'll get this one (see here for explanation). I like coffee. And I rule.

I have a string of projects slated for the spring once I get the current batch done, as well as an awesome escape plan for possibly leaving PEFO, which may (or may not) occur sometime next year.

LNJ