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31 October 2008 Going North I am going North this afternoon, to The City, where there will be a wedding. I am going by myself and I am going with a hacking, nagging cough so intense that it has left the muscles of my chest sore, as it from a workout and an ache through the rest of my body. There is a function tonight, Halloween, at a place near Christopher Street; in any other circumstances this would be a fun venture, but the highpoint of the week thus far has been to lay immobile and face-up in the square of bright sunshine that travels across the bed in the late afternoon. Well, you cannot schedule the circumstances of life around the calendar, and it has occurred to me that I need both money and a lap-top computer. Both of those could be found at the office, and the train north can be found at Union Station downtown, or at least it can before noon. After that, it had better be “all aboard” for points north. I think I have to lurch into it. I am troubled by the decline in the gross domestic product, the first in a long time, though some tell me it is not as bad as it could have been. I am troubled by the prospect of the Novel in November starting tomorrow, and I have not thought about what to write, or whether I can generate 5,000 words a day for the next month. I suppose I can worry about that tomorrow. All I have to do right now is manage to get on a train. Copyright 2008 Vic Socotra |