During the first week of October, I was the science-writer-in-residence at the University of Wisconsinâ??Madison. Being a science-writer-in-residence vastly beats being a regular old science writer, because I did not actually have to write anything. I thus got to recharge my depleted store of metaphors (my brain was a wasteland, a barren desert, a bachelorâ??s refrigerator), rest my tendonitis-ridden mouse arm and leave verbs unconjugated. I declined all declensions.
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