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August 15, 2004

I Need a Vacation

Well, the last few days have been busy.

On Friday, DC felt like old home week. After completing work on reviewing proofs for my own books in addition to the Encyclopedia, I went to drop things off and up on 6, ran into Karen Chamberlain, a former co-worked. No sooner do we start chatting then I see Dan Mishkin. Dan and I have been friends since I met him in early 1984 but we see each other way too rarely. He accompanied me back to my office and there on the voice mail are calls from Christopher Priest and Danny Vozzo, people I’ve also know and worked with for nearly 20 years. It felt for a while there like the years were peeled back.

That evening we watched the Olympics opener. Very impressively done although any presentation that requires Bob Costas to tell me what I’m watching fails at communicating. The play ended and the hordes began arriving at 11. By 11:30, I was down at my desk and chatting with Howard Margolin for the radio program Destinies.

I have to compliment Howard. He made sure to read and annotate both Star: A Time to Love and Star Trek: A Time to Hate so he could ask specific questions. He also reviewed the two previous interviews we had done and came ready with questions about my career and the comics industry since that very first conversation in December 1984. As a result, the first 45 minutes or so flew by. It was a lot of fun, even if he asked me about two editing errors that interrupted the flow of the story in both books. Oh well, I copped to making mistakes and we moved on.

At 12:30, the next DJ had failed to arrive so Howard and I were forced to vamp and chat about everything under the sun until just after 1. I was feel tired and it was successful. Once I went upstairs, there were just a few people left, sacked out on the couch and watching The Birdcage on DVD. By the time they left and the clean-up was done it was well after 2. Now, for some of you that might be typical, but unless I’m at a con, it’s very atypical.

Saturday was scheduled to be a full day of errands as we prepped for our vacation and Kate’s impending relocation to GW University. I had barely gotten a few items crossed off the list when Kate called. She and three girlfriends were en route to the NY Renaissance Faire when the driver rear-ended another car. It needed towing and they needed rescuing--across the Tappan Zee bridge, in Spring Valley. It took me about 30 minutes to finish some things before I could safely head out. The girls made the most of the experience, going shopping and laying out a picnic lunch in the towing service’s waiting room, dressed in their finest Ren Faire attire. Still, they were deeply disappointed.

After returning to Fairfield, it was back to the errands which ended with test driving a used car we might buy to replace the Saturn, which Kate totaled back in March. I was dead on my feet but stayed awake not only through dinner but through the closing performance of Jekyll & Hyde. It showed tremendous improvement in just five performances and the kids had every right to be proud of their efforts.

Today is laundry, the normal desk nonsense and an attempt to work on the fantasy outline although just vegging on the couch sounds really good.

Posted by Bob Greenberger at August 15, 2004 01:59 PM

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