MAIN EVENT. A Good Place to Get Started --- a.k.a "Table of Contents"
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The students have returned to this town, and my neighborhood's bustle of moving vans and house-warming parties has quieted to the dull swishing of vehicles down the busy street below my window. At some moments on an afternoon like this one it is absolutely as quiet as the tomb here. I find that unsettling...
Having sat here and re-lived G. TOD SLONE's recent imprisonment ordeal, as he so wrenchingly describes it in this week's AMERICAN DREAMS, I'm more in the mood for sounds and signs of the conviviality of freedom.
Besides, now that we have collected the early responses from our September Readership Poll, published in this week's VOX POPULI, I need to gear myself up for the inauguration of our Policy feature. I'm still unsure what it will be called, so suggestions are welcomed.
Meanwhile, speaking of the New, we open G21 EXHIBITIONS this week with a photographic collection from DB DAUGHERTY. Surf over and take a peek.
LIFE OF ROD - Though my schedule allowed me more time to complete this edition than any in recent memory, I found it much more difficult than most. I think it is the nagging concern I have about my loss of appetite. I had tried , earlier in the week, to fight back against this recent development. On Monday, I forced myself to consume an entire bleucheesburger, though I felt sated after completing only half of it. On Tuesday, I prepared a stew from some leftovers which I had planned to dip into for the rest of the week. But then things got hinky again.
Working on a site overhaul (there are no dead-links anywhere) I found myself completing a large upload after 10 p.m. on Wednesday. This was disincentive for preparing or ordering in anything. That began the days of foregoing anything except a sandwich on Friday evening. Now it is Sunday and I'm committed to re-heating that stew as soon as this edition is launched. The problem, of course, is that I am just not hungry. So worrying about preparing food, worrying about not actually wanting food, and then facing the meal, all leave me with a growing sense of weariness...
This all has to do with an unshakeable sense of sadness with lingers behind everything I do these days. Try as I might, I cannot bring myself to feel optimistic about anything. I know it should not be this way, as things are going well for me and the magazine right now. Certainly, I would like to write more fiction, and find an inamorata, but it seems that time and circumstances militate against those reliefs.... And I can't determine why it is I am so sad, lately.
So I am trying to get away from myself. Having completed Tacitus, I have turned to Livy and his history of the Second Punic War. Perhaps I shall find what I am seeking there.
REMEMBER: Tell every single one of your friends about this Web site. My mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my advertisers thank you.
"Work like you don't need the money,
Baltimore - 19 September, 1999 - Since the passage of Hurricane Floyd it has been considerably cooler here in B'more, a relief to us all. I shall soon not need to run my air conditioner at all and I already sense the coming day when I can pack it away for another season.
FEED THE HUNGRY. You can help someone else in this world and IT WON'T COST YOU A DIME. If you simply remember to drop by The Hunger Site every day that you surf and click a simple button ONE LESS PERSON WILL GO HUNGRY. The food is distributed by the United Nations World Food Programme and paid for through the sponsorship of companies that care. Do your part.
Thanks for coming back this week.
"Love like you've never been hurt,
"Dance like no one is watching..."
Rod
Rod is now a columnist for the Andover News Network, where he writes on web design and development issues every Thursday. He is principal writer and Editor for IT Manager's Journal, where he reviews technology issues five days a week. His opinions on the Info Age began appearing on MethodFive's HYPER technology newsletter in March.
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