{"id":164,"date":"2005-10-14T07:27:33","date_gmt":"2005-10-14T14:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/?p=164"},"modified":"2005-10-15T07:12:46","modified_gmt":"2005-10-15T14:12:46","slug":"one-day-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/?p=164","title":{"rendered":"One Day Left"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tomorrow I turn fifty, so what will I do today-the last-day-of-the-first-half? I thought about not working, not posting to the blog, not doing anything on demand…but that’s not my nature. Most of what I enjoy doing is, in some way, part of my work. My reading generally informs my work (except when I on rare occassion when I “escape” into trade trash novels), and surfing the web is usually for research or at least fodder for thought and possible blog posting. [Speaking of which, Mr. Teachout very serendipitously posted today a particularly pertinent reprise of his August 2004 Antepenultimate <\/a><\/strong>posting.] Even playing Free Cell on the computer is usually a trigger for loosening my brain enough to think more creatively about one project or another.<\/p>\n

I have a stack of books to read about Duke Ellington, who was a huge influence on Luther Henderson and with whom he worked very closely — books are soon due back at the library, so I’d best get to them quickly. I’ve got a 3000-word article due soon, plans and calls to make in my new role as Minister of Education for the Jazz Journalists Association, and then there are the chores of a personal nature that, being chores, also qualify as work: picking up clothes at the cleaners, picking out a new sink and faucet for the soon-to-be renovated kitchen, and so on. Actually, one thing I have to do today that is not a chore at all is pick up my parents at the airport. They’re coming out for a weekend visit, a mother\/daughter spa treatment, and a quiet birthday dinner for six (two friends are joining us) someplace nice, I’m told. By Sunday afternoon, though, I’ll be back at work as I have scheduled a phone interview with choreographer Hope Clark.<\/p>\n

Have a nice weekend, see you on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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