memphis egypt - 10-12-01

man, everybody's just disappearing from diaryland. casperwoo, smoocher, genem, hyonmi. it's a bummer. you know that mekons song? "no one ever says goodbye these days... we're all too busy running scared... [something something]... we're falling like leaves from a tree"

the mekons are great. i'm not really down with that waco brothers thing though.

why haven't i been writing much? let's see... general anxiety heightened by a hellacious week at work and the fact that one of my best friends might be shuffling around on thorazine soon if he can't keep it together a little better.

general anxiety disorder - or GAD! as i like to say, since that's how it feels.

my job, my job, my job. 12 flow meters sampling at 15 minute intervals for 3 months. over six thousand data points per meter. need to be divided up into wet weather and dry weather periods then adjusted for manual readings taken in the field and for missing data. you fill with linear equations derived from the depth/velocity relationship but first you need decent data periods to subsample from so you can generate the relationship. some of it's easy and some of it's just fucked.

let's all go back to the farm. we can rise at dawn to tend the fields and eat coarse bread and drink whole milk and we'll have barn dances on saturdays and the boys will be jocular and the girls will be shy and we'll all dress like they did years ago before anyone even imagined buildings that tall or planes that big.