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– YESTERDAY – Work went well. I’m enjoying my current project indexing the Ecosystems: Oceans book. It’s terrifying, however, providing all sorts of evidence of how dire things may become in the near future (mind you that the near future could include within the next several thousand years).

Highs and lows, but mostly I remember this as being a good time. I was in Chicago. After several hundred job applications I found myself back at Advanced Personel, this time with the Department of Neurological Surgery. I was tired of temping, but I liked my coworkers and fellow temps (Emily who had mutual friends from the Michigan Renaissance Festival, Lola and Evelyn, who communed with me musically and kept me on my toes with their anecdotes, our shares experiences in Humboldt Park, and Brandon, who actually told me about Electronic Music before Sam had deeply permeated the stuff).

Do something wild and fun and adventurous and saucy!

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– THE WEEKEND – Your typical late-winter weekend. On Friday tried to go out, but Daniel, Peter, and Amy were engaged, and Matt had a date. On Saturday I attended my workshops and asked Frederic about being my BA advisor (it’s a somewhat-y move that may or may not work in practice, but I’ve got to touch base with the department on that.)

Things are happening very quickly now.
I have to admit, the change in rhetoric and momentum came about even more quickly than I had anticipated.

The New York Times: South Dakota House Approves Bill Banning Nearly All Abortions.
The New York Times: Justices to Review Federal Ban on Disputed Abortion Method.

The Third Policeman

(No spoilers.)

[While I’m inostensibly discussing The Third Policeman, I’ll resolve my rant on Pale Fire here as well.]

The class was surprisingly harsh with this book, mainly in the sense of pains take to recursively and minutely acknowledge every plot inconsistency.

I was six months old.

I don’t remember much.

What were you up to in February, 1979?

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Do something wild and fun!

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– YESTERDAY – Explored Greenpoint. Got Jess a pretty blue rosary and ate lunch at the Polish Credit Union Cafeteria… I’d been referred there by a Neighborhood Guide I have; they offer really good food quite cheap. Back home, I read of Ryder, fixed Jess and me dinner, and made short work of the day.

– YESTERDAY – A success! Work went well; I plowed through nine long articles on the Oceans. Picked up some (more) books for class. Stopped for cash. Stopped at French Roast to meet with my workshop instructor. We spent awhile talking about Adrift on the Mainstream and what direction might be productive in revision.