certain things, however clearly and throat-clearingly they seem to die, resurface. like henry james, who is once more making eating something between unpleasant and impossible. out of patience, i'm seeing a specialist on monday, for which i have to take off part of my first day of work at au. also like distant sun. neither it seems can stay away.

i finished ender's shadow. that's more or less all i did today, besides reading through the times front section and arts, and the post front section and style. my two weeks of ignorance/bliss at swat left me unsatisfied; i needed to glut, just like i needed to spend an hour and a half on the train back home scribbling as much as i could recall from those matchlessly busy days. from the paper today i learned: that this martha business has gotten blown out of proportion;
that in what to me seemed like a file-this-under-Duh, the 9th circuit court has decided that reciting the pledge of alliegence in schools is unconstitutional. congress and the house reacted by marching out to the steps, rebelliously reciting the thing, and then belting out an impromptu "God Save America." patriotism or politics, it's sickening. and more so, instead of cheering, both the times and the post simply sniffed. anyway, another judge stayed the decision pending appeal so its effect will likely never be felt;
and that the word is that the palestinians will have a proper election in january, for which no credible candidate will run and after which they will once more have arafat as a leader and the world will once more be at an impasse.
i don't think i can be blamed for burying myself in at-least-it-ends-happily science fiction.