19 October 2005

I have some corrections to make from the last entry.

First, I got the rainy seasons all screwed up. The one we’re in now lasts until mid-December. The second rainy season lasts from the end of February until June.

So what does that mean? Well, what it means is countless more experiences like yesterday, where in a fairly sudden storm I found myself huddling with six other people in a booth smaller than of one of those 24-hour photo booths that used to be found in mall parking lots. For those of you who remember these things, the Libyans chasing Marty McFly in the Delorian crash through one of those in Back to the Future. I was stuck there for over an hour.

Rebecca sent me a text message saying, “Aren’t you glad you use Dial. Don’t you wish everybody did?” Well, they didn’t. I can’t complain, though, since the guys who work in the booth invited me in. The other choice was swimming into town.

And the other correction comes from my mom. I think she says it far better than I ever could:

"Just so that you have my famous quote correct it goes like this: 'If you can't baffle them with brilliance.... dazzle them with bullshit!'" Words to live by.

On other fronts, I’ve sent out a batch of pitches to the Dallas Morning News. Hopefully they’ll publish the story they’ve been sitting on soon. I was talking to a friend of ours who I bumped into. Her boyfriend (she called him partner, so I immediately thought Laura had a girlfriend) is a journalist and freelanced for a long time. She said the same thing used to happen to him. He’d write a story, editors would sit on it, and then sit on paying him. I felt a little better, in that I’m not the only freelancer this happens to. But it doesn’t make it fell right.

Anyway, that’s all from here for now. I see clouds starting to billow out my office window, and I want to get to town before it pours. Wish me luck.