Thursday

Oct, 18, 2001

luggage arrives

I am still dragging. I find out my bag will be delivered 'before noon.' So I decide to work from home so I'll be here.

When my bag finally gets here I take everything out, sorting out dirty clothes, business stuff, gifts and think about what it would have been like to lose it all. No big deal, really and truly.

I have lunch with my parents. They are glad to see me. My dad tells me a joke that they have gotten off the Internet.

I work the rest of the day in the office. If you want to call it that. I'm not 100 per cent. I decide that I'll take off on vacation tomorrow and get myself right on my own time.

We have a banquet for the Austin Community Foundation. We stand up having a drink, meeting greeting, introducing. Once we are sitting down, we have a nice time eating, talking to our table mates, listening to awards. The keynote speaker is, um pompous and self-serving. It is also Dr. Bob Arnot. At one point, I swear he says we need to understand what the Taliban 'hope for for their children.' Um, Dr. Bob, would that be their male children? Anyway, all in all a good event. And our good friends invited us as their guests. And the stories of philantropy and community service were heartening. I've always wanted to be a philanthropist as you may have heard me say. But I never made enough money.

"Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace..."

John Lennon, "Imagine"

Meta:
We'll just be keeping Lennon's radical lyrics here indefinitely. I'm updating this after the fact. Which means, of course, that I forget even more than usual.

JUST TYPING
Lost.
Luggage then contains.
Amazing treasure.
Found.
Dirty laundry.