:: Thursday 6 September 01

Insane busyness. All week at the office I've been SuperAdvisor!Woman, she who can find you a seat in Cultural Anthro even though it's supposed to be closed, she who can get you a tuition refund for that time you dropped out mid-semester back in 1992, she who will deal with your parents' anxieties about Why You're Not In Business School, she who can, with the power of one swift keystroke, release your registration holds! (God, I love releasing holds. The power ... )

The kids are good. The kids are scared and excited, shooting off little sparks of energy as they zizz down the hallways; you can almost feel them wondering Who's going to be my friends? and Which of my classes are going to suck? and Am I going to be OK? They'll be fine, most of them, and with most of them I've been doing good work.

And in my ostensible free time, I've been frantically trying to lash the Escapade website together, so we can get it up by the end of the week. Frantic, because I'm kind of working at the margins of my competence at web stuff, learning as I go. But also satisfying, because it's a way for me to give something back to Escapade, which is really the venue through which I've made many of my deepest personal connections within fandom, and at which I've always had a wonderful time.

My life is a mess, my bills are overdue, my house is full of fruit flies because I negligently let a nectarine rot on my kitchen counter. I haven't done laundry since I got back from LA, I'm a mile behind on e-mail, I need an eye exam. After my torpid slothful summer I feel like I've been dropped in the Cuisinart. But the depression that had been dogging me on and off in late August has abated; as Methos once pointed out, it's good to keep busy, and he is indeed very old and wise. Good counsel.

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"Our vocation is not a sphinx's riddle, which we must solve in one guess or else perish. Some people find, in the end, that their paradoxical vocation is to go through life guessing wrong. It takes them a long time to find out that they are happier that way."

--Thomas Merton