I'm in the "hangover" part of having submitted the project to my client.

It's not the fact that this piece is probably going to get trad-published to great acclaim (for them) that gets me.

It's that I did a lot of client therapy during this project, & the cognitive dissonance of sitting with someone's panic over fancy industry goals considering the state of the world is... well, it ain't nothing.

I feel ashamed that I ever cared about goals of my own, TBH. There's just no point to most of it.