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I’ve got this schedule taped to the lamp in front of me so I always knows where I am and don’t fall behind.

Those edits are parts that people told me were kinda boring, so I need to edit them down. I wish I had left myself more time for the final edits. That’s when I go back and read the whole thing and see how the whole of it feels. Until I’m done, I can’t really tell what has ended up being superfluous, and what became important. I need time to go back and tinker, to take things out, and build other sections up, to make sure all the connections between events are strong and clear. For instance, I bring something up in the very first chapter that I come back to in chapter 12. There’s this whole big fat book in-between. Maybe I need to put a reminder in half-way through.

The epilogue is scaring me. Every time I came across something that might be interesting to bring up in the epilogue I put it in a pile. Naturally, I have a massive pile of stuff. There are so many ways to go. I could:

– say where everyone I wrote about ended up.
– give an update about parapsychology.
– go into some of the issues raised about consciousness and the mind-body problem.
-talk about physics and quantum mechanics, the hope of the new parapsychologists.
– I have also been thinking about what interesting question I could ask a bunch of parapsychologists, and an interesting question I could ask other scientists about parapsychologists, and if anyone answers me I could include an array of the best answers. If I’m going to do this, I have to get those questions out NOW.
– or all of the above.

Ugh.

Who doesn’t love lilacs? (That’s Finney sniffing the lilacs.)

My friends Matt Belanger and Marianne Petit who helped, she says she was a sidekick, have two new websites. Here are descriptions that Marianne sent me, but just go. I love this sort of thing, these collections of stories, and I love how Matt does them. You’ll see what I mean if you go.

Disappearing Places is both an archive and collective map of places that no longer exist, at least not as they once did. Users can upload stories and images about a place, link them to a corresponding location or street address and tag them accordingly, as well as browse the stories and places other individuals have submitted.

Time Indefinite is both a repository of significant moments and a collective timeline so that we can chart where we all stand in time next to each other during our individual significant moments. Users can upload stories and images about a specific moment in time and tag them accordingly, as well as browse the stories and moments other individuals have submitted.

(PS: I can take Marianne in a fair fight.)

What the hell?? My desk make-over is apparently a total flop. I was going to put a nice, tall house plant where the lilacs are now (lilacs are in season, YAY). It would have been quite dramatic and make-over-y. But I decided I prefer buying myself flowers from time to time instead. Oh well.

I’ve been cleaning for two days, and if nothing else, my apartment is nice and clean and relatively organized. I think I might take tomorrow off. That reminds me. I saw two movies recently that I would recommend. The Host and Hot Fuzz which stars the Shaun of the Dead guys who I just adore. I wish they were my friends so I could hang out with them and play video games. (I don’t actually play video games, but it seems like the kind of thing they would like to do and it would be fun with them.) I watch Shaun of the Dead every time it’s on TV. It never gets old. Hot Fuzz was great too, but it’s hard to beat zombies, but still. It was great and totally worth seeing.

I need a break from writing so I’ve decided this weekend will be my spring cleaning weekend. I love spring cleaning. Not only will my apartment be freshly, wonderfully clean and organized by the time I’m done, but I give myself various rewards at the end. For instance, I’ll go through all my clothes and figure out what I don’t wear, doesn’t fit and take them down to the local church thrift shop. My reward: one piece of replacement clothing!

In addition to all the usual stuff, my desk is getting a makeover. It’s not bad as far as messy desks go, and after reading that Times article that was very convincing that some clutter is better than excessive organizing the object isn’t so much to clear it. For instance, those two piles on the left? I need them, and according to the Times, a few piles like that can be a good thing. Nonetheless, there must be someway to make it all look better, even with the clutter. So this is my before shot.

I was talking to Chris yesterday about the perfection of our pet’s bellys. There is nothing more vulnerable and sweet and endearing than a cat (dog, etc.) belly. Here is Finn’s.

In other news, I’ve got a birthday coming up and I find a video of me on the Charlie Rose show from 1994. 13 YEARS AGO. If you’re curious about what I looked and sounded like when I was still a sweet young thing, go here. Christ. I was still in my 30’s. This was just before Mosaic, which became Netscape, which became everything we have now, when Gore was calling the internet the Information Superhighway. God I loved and still love that man.

Please give it another go Al Gore. PLEASE run again.