canarytrap.net

So I’ve been on a brief blogging hiatus the past couple of weeks because I’ve noticed a couple of startling behavior patterns. I can no longer go into the kitchen to make myself a cup of tea without taking my phone with me (you know, in case I get some email in the couple of minutes it takes to boil water) or sit down to watch something on TV without also reading blog feeds and fiddling with wordpress themes. I recently had a two-hour conversation with someone sitting right next to me, in my apartment, entirely over Gchat.

Which is to say, there’s multitasking, and then there’s justifying a pathological need to do too much stuff at once, so I took a bit of a breather, read some books, caught up on some TV, had tea without email. Flipside, here I come!

But now I’m back and ready for more thinkiness and blabbering and a not-quite-frequent-but-semi-regular blogging schedule.

Just a quick note — I haven’t been posting recently because I’ve been on the road, driving from Boston to Florida then over to LA, where I am at the moment. Very manifest destiny and all of that and full of the expected roadtrip adventures: winning cash at casinos in Mississippi, thunderstorms through Lousiana and Arizona, John Madden’s favorite Mexican restaurant in Van Horn, Texas and the adjascent scrap metal sculpture garden (my favorite was the fish on a bike). There are entire stretchs of the country that look like they was imagined by indie filmschool grads based on their persistently quirky soundtracks.

I’ll be back on the east coast on the 25th, and moving to NYC at the end of the month. Hopefully will be blogging more regularly once I get resettled.