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18:44 - News gridlock
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It's slow news days that you're not supposed to be able to come up with much to write about, isn't it?
Well, I guess the opposite has been true for me lately. Ever since getting back from the vacation, I've had a hell of a time getting back into the groove. I'm only just now picking up some of the projects that I was working on when I left. As regards writing, I just haven't felt like there's been much I could contribute to anything. I'm keeping abreast of developments as I usually do, but I feel like I arrived late to the Katrina party (even though I was there for the whole thing) and can't really find my footing. It's one of those things that, like 9/11 and the tsunami, just sort of came out of nowhere, and in an ideal world you'd think that they'd exist entirely apart from politics and blame. They're just things that happen, and all I'm interested in doing is hearing how recovery efforts are going. I'm not in New Orleans, just as I hadn't been to New York in years and hadn't ever been to Malaysia, and so I can't think of a single thing I could say that people much better equipped for it have already said, and far better.
And just as with those other events, the politics reared their stupid, ugly heads, and I just couldn't stomach it. Politics at leisure is one thing; debating clubs don't debate when the missiles are flying, after all. But politics in the heat of the moment, or in the subsequent days or weeks? I just can't fathom it.
So I apologize for the lack of pithy content here. I'm hoping people read the Alaska journal and find it chunky enough to tide them over for a while, because things just aren't picking up around here for me just yet. I'm sure they will. But in the meantime, I'm still recovering from the trip, and world events aren't helping much to return me to that low simmer state that I'm usually stuck in. Right now things I see across blogland are just too much of a roller coaster for me to be sure I'm not about to lose my lunch over the edge, and so I'm concentrating on these few hours we seem to have in these latitudes of early sunsets, where Belgian Tervurens demand nonstop high-energy playtime and lugubrious collies plead for hour-long sunrise walks.
Routine. I need an extra helping of it these days. Guess I'm getting old.
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Brian Tiemann
