How You Doin’?

I know, it totally looks like I haven’t been updating this
blog, and it’s so misleading, because I have been writing so much for it!

Of course, as we can clearly see, “writing so much” doesn’t
really count when you’ve been writing on your Blackberry, or your iPhone, or
into your actual notebook,  ALL of which
have at least one saved blog post in them that I have been meaning to sit down
and transfer or transcribe, like my whole story about September 11 (we were
there and I have been meaning to write the whole thing down for the past, um,
eight years), an “anniversary” type story about how Stephan and I met, and even
a story about how I was walking behind two people that looked like ordinary
post-college yuppies, and suddenly they started talking about a knife fight in
the backyard.   I seem to have solved all of my computer
problems and rebuilt everything for the time being (hallelujah), but the habits
that I developed as workarounds are lingering, and now I have a bunch of stuff
in various places that I need to edit and put up. 

But before that, how’s your summer been?   I’ve been so busy lately that when I finally
got everything out the door (book, other book, book tour, UCLA class, other
book, Quicken rebuild, taxes, co-op board), I experienced (and am perhaps still
experiencing) sort of a post “push to deadline” malaise, like I was expecting
all that work to culminate in a “big bang” of sorts.  That is to say, you work and work, and do
certain things every day, and cumulatively it all contributes to your body of
work, but in the day to day of it, sometimes it’s not that exciting, and I
still feel like I’m waiting for some big payoff to hit me.     I’m serious! 

So, I want to know, is this everyone’s experience right now,
and is it maybe just because the global economic meltdown?  Is everyone feeling like your efforts are not
making a dent in your overall experience, and do you also feel like you’re
waiting for some kind of big shift?  This
is interesting to me, perhaps even more interesting than the knife fight in the
backyard.  

I'm going to Baltimore on a business trip tomorrow, but I will soon return with all-new edited posts!

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