Haiku

After an hour's commute
30th floor view
The skyline is swathed in smog

Receptionist frowns
Mind deep in concentration
Black six on red seven?

Deconstruction Constructed

Three easy steps:

1) Scan the text for signs of authorial intent.
2) Construct a Platonic ideal for the text based on authorial intent.
3) Examine the text to see how it differs from its ideal.

You're not stuck, you just do this part-time

Maybe I'm not stuck. Maybe it just takes 500 hours (50 weeks * 10 hours/week) to write and record 250 different parts (12 songs * 3 sections * 7 instruments). If I was a five man band working full time I could have been done in two weeks.

Last night I finished recording the second to last guitar part on the very last song. Almost halfway there (vocals, mix/fix, mastering still to come).