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Snapshot
After last night's slightly dense blog entry, which seemed to involve working through my feelings about the past year through the plots and changes of a television show: today was spent waiting, rather uselessly, for the electric company to come replace some sort of switch. They had reserved me from 8 am to 8 pm,…
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Epitaph One-B
It is slightly peculiar how Joss Whedon's television series seem to give me what I need to work through times of unexpected crisis…. The Buffy book, edited by Vanessa and I at first, with Janet getting it over the hump in the last two years, is finally coming out at the end of this month.…
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Ocean’s… twelve
A calm, efficient, bustling day: cleaning, haircut, picked up the exams to mark, managed the first session of the year of the HIV patient group presentations, shopping, lunch. Not in that order; but things tended to happen neatly, quickly, and all slightly too fast to plan ahead and think about – which is actually good;…
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Dilatory
Yes, I know: don't I comment, far too often, on my own rather flaky, inefficient working life in this blog? It seems that both Michael and Patrick have been annoyed by my apparent inability to just get to work, steadily – Michael to the point of gradually removing me from his virtual list of those-worth-being-concerned-about.…
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Riches
The nameless woman, sometimes called Lady Sarashina, who wrote the eleventh-century Heian memoir As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams, remembers what happened soon after she arrived as a young girl in the capitol Heian-kyo: "As I was leaving she asked, 'What would you like as a present? I am sure you don't want anything too…
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Time/lines
The snow muffles everything, but reflects some light, so that though it is long after midnight I keep moving restlessly around the apartment in a sort of glowing silence, without lights. My sister bought me some Heian literature for Christmas, among other books; it is giving everything a strange resonance – there are three time frames:…
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Paul Attinello 