CALL ME SNAKE

In the current issue of a glossy science magazine, I have a feature article that immediately follows a feature by a well-known astronomer whom I’ve met on many occasions and written about as well. This is the first time we’ve both appeared, side-by-side, in the same journal. I commented on that coincidence to him, saying it either meant I was moving up in the world or he was moving down. “I would prefer to believe your first interpretation,” he said. Which means, rather definitively, that I am moving up. Who’d of thunk it?