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November 21, 2005
TT: Off the road again
As usual, the joint's been jumping since last we met. I took Supermaud to hear Hilary Hahn at Carnegie Hall last Thursday. On Friday I went down to Broadway for the press preview of Edward Albee's Seascape, then hopped a train to Baltimore the next morning to catch a performance of Noël Coward's Hay Fever and visit Tim Page of the Washington Post, Dr. Paul McHugh of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (who has a major new book coming out next month), and Laura Lippman (whose latest mystery was published a few months ago).Needless to say, that was my idea of a relaxing weekend, and no less needless to say, it wasn't. Yes, I enjoyed every minute of it, but I crammed way too much activity into not nearly enough time, and by the time I returned to the Teachout Museum on Sunday, I was right back where I'd started in the Great Slow-Down-And-Get-A-Life Initiative, i.e., Square One. Nor does it help that I have two Wall Street Journal pieces due before the close of business on Tuesday, arrgh.
The good news is that I have nothing whatsoever to do on Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday, other than dining chez Good Enough to Eat (the ultimate concession to singletonianism) on Thanksgiving Day. What's more, I mean to keep those seventy-two hours uncluttered by any means necessary, up to and including taking the phone off the hook and pouring molten lead on anyone foolhardy enough to knock on my downstairs door.
For all these reasons, don't be surprised if I don't post too much this week, O.K.? When you're a workaholic, less is more.
P.S. Found in a fortune cookie delivered to my apartment this evening:
YOU ARE RELAXING TENSIONS AND ENJOYING A WONDERFUL TIME RIGHT THIS MOMENT.
Posted November 21, 2005 12:03 PM
