{"id":1708,"date":"2007-10-26T15:26:03","date_gmt":"2007-10-26T20:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/treadmilling\/"},"modified":"2007-10-26T15:26:03","modified_gmt":"2007-10-26T20:26:03","slug":"treadmilling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/treadmilling","title":{"rendered":"Treadmilling"},"content":{"rendered":"

I tellya, dear readers: I’ve been in overdrive at the office for about 5 months now, and it’s been burning me out something fierce. I’ve been facing one big issue of the magazine after another, plus a ton of responsibilities for our annual conference. I think it reached a point where I didn’t know how to slow down. But I figure that’s a lot better than being unemployed.<\/p>\n

On the plus side, it means I actually hammered the crap out of our November\/December issue, wrapping it up today even though it’s not due at the printer till Tuesday. Our issues have been running late all year for a variety of reasons, so I was just hoping to get this one ish out by deadline. Even though I was early, I still sprinted to the finish line, working on news pages last night and spending the early morning gathering photos for the features.<\/p>\n

The upshot? I got the last few files to my production manager by noon, which meant I could take a half-day and chill the heck out.<\/p>\n

In my world, that means driving down to Montclair, picking up some coffee over at Bean’s, walking around town a little (cold and drizzly today, but hey), and hitting the Book Center<\/a> for a little stochastic research!<\/p>\n

Within a minute, I opened a book to a page that provided all sorts of grist for the imagination-mill. You can expect my novel sometime around 2020.<\/p>\n

After that score, I browsed for books on my wishlist, and ended up finding a bunch of little treasures on the cheap —<\/p>\n

Waiting for the Weekend<\/a> – Witold Rybczynski<\/p>\n

Elvis Costello’s Armed Forces<\/a> – Frank Bruno (from the 33 1\/3<\/em> series of books-about-albums)<\/p>\n

Prince’s Sign O’ the Times<\/a> – Michelangelos Matos (ditto)<\/a><\/p>\n

Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. 3<\/a> – Robert Caro<\/p>\n

The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia<\/a> – Peter Hopkirk<\/p>\n

— for a grand total of $35!<\/p>\n

Now it’s on to a nice, relaxing weekend of wrapping up the annual NBA preview, reading Middlemarch<\/em>, and, um, sleeping.<\/p>\n

So don’t call, is what I’m saying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I tellya, dear readers: I’ve been in overdrive at the office for about 5 months now, and it’s been burning me out something fierce. I’ve been facing one big issue of the magazine after another, plus a ton of responsibilities for our annual conference. I think it reached a point where I didn’t know how … <\/p>\n

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