Issues of imaginary-animal-cruelty aside, every time I complete a major project, I have this irrational expectation that a parade will immediately follow.

Today we completed a project at work that has taken over a year.

This time... I did get a parade. Or at any rate a round of bourbon and several rousing toasts with the gang at work, plus lunch with appreciative folks at F&M. Who also kicked ass on this project.

Y'know how everybody else "relaunches" their school's website with a new look and the same crappy content? Yeah, they didn't do that. They threw out essentially all of it and started from scratch.

Visualize a college website that isn't musty. Livin' the dream, y'all.

Now, my responsibilities shift. I'll be spending 50% of my time working on Way to Health, a research platform for behavioral economics — the science of getting people to take their darned medicine — which we built in collaboration with researchers at Penn, and 50% working on Apostrophe, our open-source content management system based on node.js and other cool technologies also found in One Post Wonder. More importantly, APostrophe is vastly friendlier than Drupal for the folks actually managing the content. Such as our friends at F&M.

It's taking time for me to get used to this concept. I'm ready for a new challenge, but I'm also having trouble grasping that I am no longer pregnant. A year is a long time to be pregnant with anything.

Could be worse. I could be a lady elephant.