Well, well, well. It's been a long time!
I was just looking over my and my friend's journals, marveling at the fact that I hadn't posted for a month and a half, and contemplating this entry when Baldanders AIMed me out of the blue. He had noted my long absence and wondered if I was okay. Strange synchronicity.
Gang, I'm okay. A lot of things have happened that I want to tell you about -- and that I wanted to tell you about as they happened -- but I have this difficulty. I'm rather poor at time management, and a single activity usually comes to dominate my existence. (Baldanders argues that this is good time management, and it may well be.) Right now the dominant activity is writing my memoir; it takes up most of my free time and leaves little emotional energy for anything else. And since my full-time job has to take some kind of precedence it there... Well, you get the point.
I've been to Utah recently, I'm going to California, Arizona, and Florida soon, I've nearly choked to death at a noodle shop on Union Square, I've had a doctor stick an optical cable up my nose and down my throat, I've acquired two more fish, I've finally met my five-year-old son, and I've written about 150 pages since the last journal entry. In fact, it may even be time to post a table-of-contents update to keep myself going (not that I intend to lose momentum at this point:
THE ACCIDENTAL TERRORIST
How I Went from Mormon Missionary
to Hijacker Without Really Trying
Table of Contents
PRELUDE. Problems in Applied Religion
PART I. UNITED STATES
CHAPTER 1. What Happened Before You Arrived
CHAPTER 2. The Missionary Imposition
CHAPTER 3. Clarion Call
CHAPTER 4. Gentiles on My Mind
CHAPTER 5. The Rocky Mormon Picture Show
CHAPTER 6. Words and Phrases You Must Never Use in Utah
CHAPTER 7. Holding Fast to the Rod of Glass
CHAPTER 8. The Tête-à-Tête Offensive
CHAPTER 9. Supercalifornication
CHAPTER 10. Coke and Sympathy
CHAPTER 11. God Drops a Bombshell
CHAPTER 12. A Thunderous Clash of Symbols
CHAPTER 13. Feeling My Oaths
CHAPTER 14. The Devil and Miss McCormick
CHAPTER 15. Dotting My I's and Crossing My T's
CHAPTER 16. I Was a Teenage Space Alien
CHAPTER 17. Girlfriend, Interrupted
CHAPTER 18. Sailors on an Empty Sea
CHAPTER 19. Confession Is Good for the Gander
CHAPTER 20. The Sound of the Trumpet, the Alarm of War
CHAPTER 21. The Tissue at Hand
CHAPTER 22. Claws Like a Bear's
CHAPTER 23. Kisses, Foiled Again
INTERLUDE. What Happened Before Any of Us Arrived
PART II. CANADA
CHAPTER 24. Clueless in Calgary
CHAPTER 25. Methuselah's Son
CHAPTER 26. Intractable
CHAPTER 27. Blessed Are the Hungry
CHAPTER 28. Habits of the Unsupervised Male Missionary
CHAPTER 29. Out of Bounds and Traveling
CHAPTER 30. The City of Sisterly Love
more to come...
There's a preview elsewhere on my site -- drop by if you feel so inclined. It's the only journal I seem to be keeping consistently just now.
