Various Happenstances of SethJuly 31, 2006So these two old Jewish guys are caught in a flood, and one of them is treading water and trying to help the other one keep from drowning. The guy treading water says, "Can you float alone?" And the other guy replies, "This is a hell of a time to be asking for money." Anyway, things are getting less crowded around the House of the Rising Pun. My next door neighbor died recently, and though we'd only spoken once or twice, things have been a lot quieter around here since. Okay, he was a fellow with loud friends. But just after I learned that he'd died, my housemate announced that she'd be moving out at the end of the month as well. I am sorry to see her go, and not just because I hate paying utility bills by myself. But hey, at least she's just moving and not dead. See how optimistic I've gotten? Perhaps my optimism is due to my productivity. Well, sort of. I've been slower at writing the Rhode Island book than I'd like, but I am steadily making progress. And a recent trip home afforded me interviews with various interesting people for the book, which was useful and entertaining. But my real joy in productivity has come just from my continued weekly comedy updates. I've slacked a bit on the Style Invitational*, and all but abandoned the OEDILF, but have replaced it with areas where I have complete and unfettered creative control. I'm keeping up my bi-monthly local column, contributing weekly limericks to BBSpot, and doing the weekly newscast with Lex. And I'm loving it.** My birthday passed, and a friend made me a cake that said "Seth's Not Dead". This pleased me greatly, especially because it was cheesecake. Another year... time just keeps going faster. I can't believe July is over already. I had some friends of the philosophical persuasion over for lunch the other day, and in between our discussions of morality and education, I tried to figure out if I was content with my life. And the conclusion I came to was 80%, with the other 20% contingent on getting books published. Which will hopefully all come together for me in the next few years. Writing is oft a solitary life. But I seem to hang out with friends more evenings than not, especially if you count talking online with Lex, which I don't, but still. I'm not making the writing progress that I would if I didn't hang out with people so much, but I'm okay with that. I think I had a point when I started all of this, but taking such a long break mid-entry has led me to lose track of what that point might have been. Instead, here's a random anecdote: I was online playing a silly game and was talking with someone about a rock. I said something like "Are you ready to rock?", and he wrote back explaining that it shouldn't be taken for granite. I thanked him for the kind sediments, he said he was just being gneiss, I said he could talc the talc but if he couldn't follow through, I'd have to tell people I never metamorphical man. Then he assured me he was actually a geology major. It surprised me at the time, but in retrospect it was obvious. I should have said, "Of quartz."
Time Warp --><-- Ham-STAR in the HouseBlog Home
*Actually, I should go enter now. And just
did. I'm finishing this blog post after taking 15 minutes to enter
the Invitational after failing to do so regularly of late. Well,
not just after. Then I read the Nerdcore forums a few times, and
played some Kingdom of Loathing, and checked my email, and LiveJournal,
and wow, suddenly it's two hours later then when I started this
footnote. **Also, I've been swimming in raw sewage. I love it.*** ***Look, I can footnote a footnote! Anyway, if you haven't seen the Naked Gun series, the previous footnote won't make any sense. ****Ice cream. Honestly, what's not to love? *****And that one wasn't even attached to anything. In fact, you're cheating by reading this footnote too. Cheater.
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