Sunday 13th 2007f May 2007

Busyness

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Yes, it’s been a long time. I’ve been busy. What do you want from me? Blood?

I haven’t just been busy with work, although that has been quite intense recently. Since the last entry a number of highly bloggable things have happened, as well as some non-bloggable things. I will see how much of the bloggable I can remember.

Firstly, I went to Tucson, Arizona for Jeremy and Melanie’s wedding. That was fantastic – a real holiday. Arizona was amazing. Many cacti. I always thought of cacti as being about chest height, but no, they’re as tall as trees! And pleasantly anthropomorphic. Little arms! We stayed at the Westward Look resort. I’ve never really stayed in a fancy hotel before, and now I finally see what I’ve been missing all those years. Whenever I travel I always book the cheapest room I can find, but no more! Well, I probably still will, but now it will be ruefully.

Eli Amongst the Cacti Eli amongst the cacti

The sun was shining (dry heat – nice), the desert was beautiful, my room was bigger than my apartment, I got a very painful deep tissue massage that left me all tingly, I danced like a fool, met a load of great people, hung out by the pool and got to attend a really fantastic wedding. I was the only man there not wearing a tie due to an unfortunate shirt-staining-last-minute-substitution incident, but nobody noticed. I think. It was three days and I could go into more detail, but what’s the point? The trip back to New York was a little stressful – there was a big storm over the entire Eastern seaboard. Several of my friends’ flights were cancelled or delayed. Mine wasn’t, but the landing in LaGuardia was, shall we say, interesting.

Not long after that my old college chum Ivan came to stay with me for a few days. That was a blast. It was great to see him. After the activity of Arizona it was nice to stay up late at night drinking, watching movies and talking shit. Of course, it probably would have been better if I hadn’t been having to work the next day, but you can’t have everything. I’ll let him fill in some of the details with his guest entry which I’m sure will be forthcoming any time now, right, Ivan?

I’ve started going back to the gym – my suit didn’t fit me so well, I’m going to another wedding in three weeks and I don’t want to buy a new one. It’s terribly painful – it hurts me even as I sit here. My trainer is a Latvian woman called Inese. I think she hates me, but I’m not sure why. Oh sure, she smiles and laughs, but the things she puts me through…

Last Sunday Julian had an exhibition of his photography open in Riverdale in the Bronx, which I attended. It was a very pleasant experience. I’ve only been in the Bronx once before, also with Julian. The exhibition is on in the Riverdale YMHA. Of course, it’s also on in Second Life.

Julian has been quite invlolved in Second Life for a while now. Some of my longtime readers (if there are any left) may recall that I dallied with Second Life quite a bit while I was living in Queens, but I decided it was sucking up too much of my life so I stopped. Julian seems to have a better handle on it – he seems toi be doing quite well in there!

I actually hosted the virtual opening which took place several hours before the meatspace one. When I say “hosted” I mean that Julian came to my apartment and used my laptop – I live much closer to the Bronx than he does. He blogs about the three dimensional opening here and teh two dimensional one here.

My apartment purchase moves along. Honestly, I currently have no idea how long the process is going to take from here, when I can close, when I’ll move… It all seems to be going well, so I guess I’ll cling to that.

Millennium Crisis, the movie that I co-wrote back in 2004, is going to be distributed in Japan, which is pretty cool. It will be called Biohazard 3077 which is even cooler.

Let’s see, what else, what else… Well, there’s always more, but that’s all I’m going to write about. I always forget something these days. When I was only working intermittently back in 2004 just the wedding in Tucson would probably have inspired at least one “post(And the second one)”: of a couple of thousand words. I would have spent the entire weekend writing it. But no more. Let’s face it people – the golden days of this blog are over. And who is even left to mourn?

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