Hi. How you doin'?
No matter how necessary I think an apology is, I won't apologize or even mention that it's been a long time since I've posted anything longer than a single sentence on this old blog. (Oops, sorry. Oops again.) Here's what's kept me busy.
For about three months I've had some nasty pains in my left leg that had me limping and rootching around in my seat trying to get comfortable. An MRI last week showed a ruptured disk pinching my sciatic nerve. That would do it. So I'm on my second round of corticosteroids and the pain's gone. I just have some lingering numbness in my toe and weakness in whichever calf muscle keeps me from walking like I have a swim fin on my foot. Here's me: step flap step flap step flap. But enough moaning about my health.
I've been ridiculously busy with work since December. Building a website that was due to launch Dec 31, then Jan 31, then Mar 13, then yesterday, and now maybe Monday. It's a slippery deadline that has had me in "final week" mode over and over. I've never put in so many evenings and weekends on a job. I do appreciate that my dept head has kept me employed this whole time. Really. But I learned a few things. Number one: enlist the help of others; you can't do it all yourself without going a little nutzo and rupturing your spine.
Has anything else happened this year? A college literary magazine agreed to publish my story, "Otto's Bob Jacket." I've been struggling with a new story. ("Struggling" means something other than "writing.") I find myself actually watching presidential speeches. I'm looking for work, but not with my full attention. KR and I are planning a week in Stonington Maine again this summer.
Yeah, I guess that's enough for now. See you later.
