Friday, September 17, 02004
I'm back in Virginia, and, crap, there are tornado warning all around Northern Virginia. I'm staying put in the office until pretty late tonight. I'd rather not get caught in one driving the little Insight. My parents were going to visit this weekend. Good thing they put it off until next week !
Tornado warnings in Virginia.
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Wednesday, September 15, 02004
I'm in Richardson,Texas for a couple days on business. If the town has a soul, I doubt I will get a chance to see it. There's nothing but highways and strip malls, and cookie cutter housing as far as the eye can see. It's my first time in Texas. I was hoping to see at least one oil well.
My del.icios.us inbox is turning out to be a source of tasty links on a pretty regular basis. The trick seems to be to subscribe to fairly generic tags like 'design' or 'tools'. I'm getting a lot more out of it than what I'm contributing. Shame on me !
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Sunday, September 12, 02004
The fast is over. Keeping the TV off wasn't a big deal, but I did end up web surfing a bit, and I think I totally missed a movie or two I wanted to see because they were duds.
The past few weeks have been pretty busy. I finally found a small two bedroom townhouse in the Lake Anne Village section of Reston. The settlement date is a few weeks away, but I'm still waiting for the deal to fall through somehow. The apartment in Arlington is in a half-packed state of chaos. I'm keeping pretty odd hours at work because I need to pop out for home inspections and to talk with insurance and bank people.
I can't wait till it's over and I'm settled down again. But then I'll have all sorts of new things to worry about, like the entire house collapsing the first time I close a door too hard, or the roof caving after the first snowfall. This first winter I will most like be walking around the place on eggshells, wondering if every noise if some pipe bursting or what not.
A more rational fear is that the upcoming 'revitalization' of the nearby Lake Anne Village Center will turn the area into another corporate redevelopment causilty. That warning about five additional high rises in the area did not go by unnoticed. I'm leaving an area that adheres the Dark City school of city planning, so I was hoping I could go a year or two without large-scale construction in the neighborhood.
But even more than the, what I assume is normal anxiety associated with moving into a first house, I find I'm stuck in a deep melancholy with respect to leaving Arlington. It's not as if I'm going to miss the Ballston area very much. Rather I've been reflecting over my time in Arlington and it really hasn't been very positive, especially the last four years. I don't mean that in any sort of political 'four more years' sense. I just mean there was a time I was a lot happier than I am now, and that time's a lot further back than I thought it was.
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