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11/29/99

Billing day at the good old Good Right Arm, Inc. (How nice of Word to supply those words automatically.) A ritual I have enjoyed every fourth week for the last 23 years now. Kind of a summing up of a month's work that you could go back and look at to trace what happened. Can't imagine that would be of any interest, but it could be done, especially since there won't be hardback editions of my biography coming out anytime soon. Ally McBeal tonight was sillier than usual. I'm really tired of them putting slapstick bits for John to do in the show. Those exploding shoes and the childish overdone stutter dip over into stupidity rather than anything resembling social commentary. Fact is, I still think that they had the best preliminary to the Prez's big "I told a lie" speech, though. That night, right before the big confession, they ran the sexual harassment episode and Fish said "Everybody knows that in order to get ahead in business, you have to g___(at which point Billy elbowed him into silence.

Well, I got my reply back from my biggest client after I sent her my resignation letter. She was very classy about it and totally gracious. In some ways it hurts like heck to give one like that up, but it's time to force myself into some changes and there's no way I could have kept it and traveled like we want to do next year.

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