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Just as dreams do, memory makes me profoundly aware of the unreality, the evanescence of the world, a fleeting image in the moving water.
-- Eugène Ionesco
Monday, June 30, 1997
Tomorrow is July, and the real summer starts. July and August are usually dry and warm in Seattle, despite the myth of the rainy Northwest.
I read Lance today. At first I couldn't figure out what he was talking about, because he was discussing goings-on among a set of web writers that I don't follow that regularly, although I have read them. Shades of the online diarists' feuds! So I went to the websites he was talking about, but it's difficult to figure it all out after the fact, and the browser version I was using today was making it tough to read some of the pages involved. I do feel regretful when a site I've been enjoying or a writer I've been following falls off the net. That's a difference between web sites and books or movies. A video or a book exists in a more permanent way; you can usually catch up later. A website can disappear with a flick of a switch, and there is no organized system of archiving on the Internet. Love Letters in the Sand...
I am feeling the pressure of getting ready for this trip back east. Before I go, I need to
Of this, what I accomplished today: created some new graphics for July journal. This is arguably the least important, but I like playing with Image Composer.
A---, a former contractor from the bay, had his first day as a full-time employee today. He marked this by bleaching his hair and dying it bright electric purple. He even insisted that they take a new digital picture when they issued his new cardkey, when they were going to use the existing picture. Full-time employees are sometimes called "Bluebadge" employees because of the blue border around their pictures on their cardkeys.
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