Month: July 2000
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Extreme olfactory triggers and strange nostalgia
I’m in one of those strangely nostalgic moods that only happens when you combine an extreme olfactory trigger from the past with an old CD that strikes a nerve. I’m burning a candle that smells like 1993 to me, and the CD was Rush – Counterparts. It reminds me of someone from a long time…
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Saturday afternoon, no plans
I feel a need to update, even though not a lot’s going on. Saturday afternoon – no plans, a few bucks, and so-so weather. I went out late last night to Kiev, to eat some food that I probably shouldn’t have. I have been passively drifting on some kind of diet thing, but it’s more…
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ISBN, Dolby
Okay, I’m calmed down now. The good news is that my book has an ISBN number. Forevermore, Summer Rain by Jon Konrath will be known as 0-595-13494-7. And that is cool. I feel very legitimate now. I just wish I didn’t have another 2-3 month wait until the thing was in my hands. It’s pouring…
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Early Sunday
I don’t think I’ve ever been awake this early on a Sunday morning, unless I was still trying to make it home from a Saturday night out. Even back when I was a kid and my mom used to drag me to church, there was an 11:15 mass. But I went to bed early, and…
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wanting pierogies
It’s a beautiful day out, and I woke up early, and I have a wad of cash in my pocket I can spend on anything, but I’m sick. My stomach’s bothering me, and I really want to go eat something bad, a pile of fried pierogies with sour cream or a plate of greasy hash…
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exhaustion, heat, and lack of demarcating events
Life is like a daze right now, a combination of exhaustion, heat, and lack of demarcating events to mark the passage of days and weeks. I wish I could find the most ideal bed in the most ideal temperature and simply sleep for weeks, with machines feeding me and stimulating my muscles and whatnot. But…
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Book done, Seattle nostalgia
Well, I think it’s time to start writing here again. Aside from the number of people that keep writing to see if I’ve jumped off a building yet based on my last entry, there’s been a lot of nothing going on in the writing world, and I don’t want to resort to other less savory…