{"id":9075,"date":"2026-10-05T18:51:01","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T01:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/?p=9075"},"modified":"2026-10-05T18:51:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T01:51:03","slug":"is-it-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/05\/is-it-over\/","title":{"rendered":"is it over?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"435\" src=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Screenshot-2026-10-05-at-9.45.38-PM-600x435.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9076\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Screenshot-2026-10-05-at-9.45.38-PM-600x435.png 600w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Screenshot-2026-10-05-at-9.45.38-PM-300x217.png 300w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Screenshot-2026-10-05-at-9.45.38-PM-767x556.png 767w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Screenshot-2026-10-05-at-9.45.38-PM-639x463.png 639w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Screenshot-2026-10-05-at-9.45.38-PM-1536x1113.png 1536w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Screenshot-2026-10-05-at-9.45.38-PM-2048x1484.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">i don&#8217;t know. sure feels like it&#8217;s over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Technically speaking, I have 2 more weeks of &#8220;convention season&#8221; left &#8211; the lead-up to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clockworkalchemy.com\/\">Clockwork Alchemy<\/a> remains, where I&#8217;m on 3 or 4 panels, and am also taking my wife and a couple friends to see the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fifty_Something_tour\">Rush 50 Something<\/a> tour &#8211; but the hard part, Dragon Con and Worldcon and the associated Worldcon Academic paper and the fall-from-the-sky Frontiers in Robotics paper edits &#8211; are over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am so glad I had built up a month and a half of buffer for Drawing Every Day, as I&#8217;m still a week ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More in a bit, now that &#8220;the Submarine&#8221; has surfaced &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-the Centaur<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pictured: Me mugging at lunch before taking my wife to the airport, just after a wonderful 20th anniversary trip to Asheville, North Carolina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i don&#8217;t know. sure feels like it&#8217;s over. Technically speaking, I have 2 more weeks of &#8220;convention season&#8221; left &#8211; the lead-up to Clockwork Alchemy remains, where I&#8217;m on 3&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[215,221,193,243],"tags":[4,260,5],"class_list":["post-9075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appearances","category-panels","category-real-life","category-the-currents","tag-dragon-writers","tag-drawing-every-day","tag-we-call-it-living","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9077,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9075\/revisions\/9077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}