I am heading out of town for a few days on an all-expenses-paid luxury vacation to a glamorous-but-remote tropical location. I know, it’s shocking. The days are so few, and the location so remote, that I will be spending almost as much time in airplanes and airports as I will at my destination. ["All-expenses-paid," by the way, should be interpreted as "some-expenses-hopefully- reimbursed-by-my- department-that-hates- me-so-I'm- not-crossing-my-fingers," or something along those lines. "Glamorous," "luxury," and "tropical" are all likewise not intended to be literal.]
I’d love to be sleeping right now, or even packing, but I unfortunately have to stay up and finish editing this paper that has to come with me on said vacation.
The house is dead quiet, except for the horrible ticking of my alarm clock, which, yes, I can hear out here in the living room, and my sentences have passed "winding" and gone straight for "incoherent." The only good part is that I’ve somehow decided to make the paper about ale. Or eels. One of the two, anyway.
I will check in again next week when I’m back in Zembla, at which point I may or may not have Some News.
I hope the trip is enjoyable!
Mmmm, eel.
That was incredibly vague….
Oh well. Just make sure you’re not on Flight 815 with a bunch of people that have unresolved issues with their fathers.
Good luck!
Thanks, guys!
I am done with the paper now, and it really did turn out to be about ales and eels, sort of. Ales, eels, and murder. I’m kind of hungry now.
Well, time to get crackin’ on the packin’!
P.S. Oedipa, re: unresolved father issues–oh my god! Tell me about it! I liked last night’s episode, but I am a leetle tired of the backstories with that guy always going to the same place, and AGAIN without answering That Lingering Question. (Being cryptic in case anyone was gonna watch it but hasn’t yet. Sorry!)
Ah…they’re building us up. Hey, at least they gave us a glow in the dark map to keep us happy for a while…. But I know what you mean.
i had eel for dinner. (sushi, good.)
and i bet yr writing about waterland . . .
yeah, i’ve read a book.
if you do get stranded on an island, don’t let the hunky redneck have the guns, and don’t let that doctor dude boss you around.
oh, and henry gale was a . . . black man!
happy trails!
oops, i answered an important question. feel free to edit my post.