It was a crazy cascade of a day. I basically worked from 6:30 AM to 7:30 PM. I did knock a few things off the list, but a large portion of the day was spent going from one meeting to another. Chaos carefully layered on top of chaos, with a few flying monkey's thrown in for the entertainment value. But, even with all that, it was mostly a positive. There was one meeting during the day that was frustrating, largely because their were so many people on the meeting, and I wasn't even really sure what most of them were doing there.
I swung home for a simple dinner at about 3:00 PM, but pretty much immediately popped back online to keep working, through I did watch an episode of Ghost Hunters while I was working. I finally broke it off and called it an evening, then spent a wonderful hour on the phone with T.R.. Now, with the windows open and the fans blowing, I am settled in to unwind before calling it a night. I reckon I'll watch about an hour or so of TV, then curl up with "Cities of the Plain" and keep reading. I did realize the other day where the title of the novel comes from:
"And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow..." Genesis 19:29.
Given that this is a Cormac McCarthy book, I can imagine it is going to turn out to be a bit more than a distant allusion. I read an amusing quote from him the other day on Good Reads:
"I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else." Cormac McCarthy
There are definitely times when I have to agree with that.
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