Got Time?

Loads of it, actually. You are welcome to borrow any of the time that I have to use because I really don’t know what to do with my overabundance of the so-called “fourth dimension” and it’s getting harder and harder to fill the ever growing void.

What makes it worse is that I’m waiting for answers at the same time that I try to fill my day with artistic and literary pursuits. The answers are coming from a higher authority. Not God, quite. Not our newly appointed President (though it was nice to have the time off to watch last week’s inauguration AND feel like you were one of the people he was directly talking to). They are coming from two places in particular about certain opportunities that I have been waiting for, one for almost a year’s time. But now I’m getting cold feet to fess up to what they are because I know the moment that I reveal what they are it will ultimately jinx their reality coming into fruition. So wait with me, won’t you? Together we can go over the to-list of time passers that I have recently taken up:

• Finished reading Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke and I don’t think I’m going to be reading a biography of that length again any time soon
• Completed the long-awaited pilot episode for “The Rounds”, a television series I created with Katie about our time as RAs at 80 Lafayette Street
• Sent out copies and greetings to all of the people who most the characters from “The Rounds” is based upon
• Speaking of Katie, she comes into San Diego on Friday…make a mental note to clean up the place and stock up on some mutually agreed upon snacks
• Watched Brotherhood, Season 2. Really good show, really well done, but still not The Sopranos.
• Finished reading The Pleasure of My Company by Steve Martin. Not great, not horrible, but just the right kind of book to read in a day
• Read two scripts for La Jolla and did the coverage on them. One was an adaptation of a Gogol short story and it was awesome. The other made me sick to my stomach.
• Wrote four people, including my grandmother, correspondence via what is now referred to as “snail-mail”
• Waiting around for a package from UPS which is never really that much fun because you literally have to wait for them or else they cannot get into the building to deliver your package
• Attended Melissa’s birthday party at Imperial House and felt great upon arriving because I walked there all the way from my apartment
• Drinking and writing with Justin because it makes me feel like I’m being productive during two activities that suck to do alone
• Long for New York City
• Long for Sara to come back
• Wait for the answers that I know if I’d just stop thinking about would be a pleasant surprise and reach beyond the realm of fantasy

I’m sure there is more. Just to make it clear I almost wrote “making an inane blog entry” as the final bulletin, stopping myself short of feeling profoundly Meta. Or perhaps not…

Clockwatching resumed.