10.25.99

It's been a long time. There are a few moments when I think that I'm not interested in doing this anymore. Mostly, I think I'm just thinking about other things, or trying to do other things, and I just haven't taken the time to write here. Actually, I haven't been writing anywhere. Well, that's not exactly true: There are two entries preceding this one that I've written sometime over the last two weeks. I'm only writing now because I'm eating breakfast and have nothing better to do. Mary and Wayne's wedding was probably the most elegant wedding I will attend - probably the most elegant one in which I will ever participate. Just one little hitch to the hitch: the photographer flaked on the whole thing...(pause for impact).... I thought for sure he was dead. Had to be. But he wasn't. When he was located a few days later, he was imputed as saying, "I thought it was the 29th." I think it will all be OK. The photographer is going to photograph them later at his expense. And the guests, when they learned no one was going to record the wedding, metamorphosed into a pack of paparazzi armed with point-n-shoots and cardboard-covered disposables. The following weekend Tom drove up from Portland. Good to have him here. Saturday we drove north toward Mount Baker and the Park Butte Trail. Gorgeous meadows gilded in fall and vistas to die for. Near the snow line we walked along the spine of a massive moraine. A crash-landed spaceship might live such a scuff, as wide and steep and deep as it was. Other than that I've only been preparing for the future. The program I'm working for is in the midst of a physical move. I hate moving and all the myriad details that get forgotten, remembered, and lost again. I tire of the labor-intensive aspects. A good thing is that I now have a laptop. Part of the deal of the move is that I will no longer have an office; I am now officially mobile. All of last week I worked the mornings away in cafés of my choice, sipping on hot chocolates and kept company by the chatter of strangers. Wednesday is the move proper. Until then I am frantic in a swarm of details.

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