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time keeps on slipping...
January 23, 2006
time seems to be escaping from me, seeping like water through nooks and crannies i can't see. i can account for it pretty well when i'm at work. i know and can feel the acceleration of time as i approach a deadline. i know that fun time passes more quickly, so i can chalk some of it up to goofing off.
there's running. yesterday, running 22 miles swallowed almost four hours of time, not counting preparation, travel time back to the starting point, a nice plate of migas and part of a pancake, and an afternoon's convalescence.
there's television, some sleep, a little time with friends, but all that isn't enough to add up to the balance of days and weeks, isn't enough to explain why i haven't accomplished this or that, to explain why my life hasn't changed. i can't explain why pages aren't full of words, or why the time that i am aware of is still just as blank.
the running has become more and more the focus, partially out of necessity as the marathon approaches, but much more so out of the lack of anything else. i haven't been writing, because i would either write about the things that are in my life, which amount to little right now, and the rest of the words and thoughts would be about the absence of things. at the end of the day, you can only try for so long to make something out of nothing.
still, tonight, i ate at home, had a glass of wine, and headed down to the coffeeshop with the laptop, ready to make a go of things, for whatever it might be worth. i got here at about 9:30, only to find out we're closing to have a meeting at 10:00. crap, crap, and crap.
so, there are these few paragraphs, and these few lone stars.
Posted by Rob at January 23, 2006 09:35 PM
Comments
Hey Rob, just writing to see what's up, other than your blogs, and to let you know my email address. Good to see you running around and having fun doing it. At least as much fun as one can have training for a marathon.
Take it easy
Marc O
Posted by: Marc Overall at January 27, 2006 02:58 PM
ti-i-i-ime is on my side, yes it is
Posted by: Jenna at January 31, 2006 11:36 AM