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Monday, June 14, 2004

The Bosco Fire Drill...(Redux + Update)

10:36 PM

No excuses, just the facts, ma'am: The scarcity of posts of late is not due to a lack of will or interest, it's the evidence of a failing of mine, piling too many obligations upon my plate. This fact was of course exacerbated by a trip back to the States, which not only expended time, but carried with it the baggage of almost an equal amount of time lost in recovery from the drastic effect of time-warp more commonly known as jet-lag.

New York is exactly 12 hours behind Beijing. On this last trip, the itinerary included an overnight stop in Tokyo, which occasioned a rather surreal time dynamic: arriving in New York 30 minutes BEFORE we left, even though we were in the air for more than half a day! Upon our return, the reverse of this dynamic was that we left New York early on a Wednesday morning, flew for well more than half a day, but arrived in Beijing late Thursday night. Altogether it meant a time whiplash of the mind and body that damn near killed me--and I am using only a small dose of hyperbole.

Then came the catch-up of catching up with the duties and responsibilities of teaching and lecturing at three Biejing universities. This is not to mention catching up with the work by which I make my real living--writing (I teach only because I love it and believe that I am giving back something for a career that has been rather good to me). In that direction, besides one book that is dangerously short on deadline, there are two more that are chronically, acutely behind schedule.

Plus the best, the worst, and newest news in my wordsmithing career is that upon my return I signed onto a major book and film project here in China--the details of which I cannot contractually reveal just yet, except to say YIPPIE! and thank you lucky stars! When the time is appropriate, I will proudly announce more details of a project that might be said to be a dream-come-true kind of creative endeavor.

Anyway, and any how, the point is I wish to ask the faithful readers of these pages to forgive the lack of posting and bear with me if you please; I will have a new post or two quite soon, perhaps even today, maybe--because to add cyber insult to injury, I haven't been able to access my Blogger interface for several days and I don't have a clue as to what's up with that. I can access the site, it isn't "blocked," but all I can do is look at it and quietly curse the fates as the hours and days, and more than a week(!) speeds by....

I think it is WORKING! I won't know until I click the mouse...will I or will I not be back in the blogging business?

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1 Comments:

Congratulations Joseph!! Sounds great; hope to hear the details soon.

By richard, at 11:32 AM