This is the last of Carmen’s collected letters. It’s still in her possession, and that doesn’t look good. I hate to say it, but this will be the last letter in the project, at least for a little while.
We’ve had a few reports of pests in the archives. Frustratingly inconclusive reports too, not just mice or rats, some kind of bug. Nothing’s been destroyed yet, but they’re not taking any chances. My little project hardly takes priority when you consider some of the extremely valuable artifacts my hosts have to tend.
So they are, effectively, fumigating. Technically they’re using some kind of extremely complex halon system? Whatever the details, I’ll be locked out of the facility for a month, maybe more.
I don’t get a vacation just because they’ve locked the doors. I still need to ship samples to some of you, and I need to go back over the older entries and update them with more information, but you shouldn’t expect new entries for a while.
If you’d like to keep updated about the fumigation, I’d suggest visiting here for status updates from the LOC. You can also track the RSS, which will update the moment I have something new to share.
I know that the term “Hiatus” can fill a lot of people with dread. How many research projects vanish during such suspensions? Funds dry up, flaky professors switch departments, and suddenly there’s no one to finish the project.
I wish I could promise that this’ll be different, but everyone promises that. All I can say is that I’ll do my best to get back to work as soon as I can.
