110920 If we're post-labor day, can autumn be far behind?
110920 You who live in the 'nawth' are already looking at new sweaters to wear and all that cool stuff. Here in Florida Labor Day happens pretty much in the middle of summer. Today is the 20th and it is still hotter than a three-dollar pistol outside. I had one good evening last week when I could open the front door for a few hours. Two of our 'palmetto bugs' (giant cockroaches, really but we call them something else to make the tourists happy) promptly scampered into the house. Spots, my four-footed assistant, got one and I got the other.
Writing life: So one morning I come into the office at 7 a.m. and the light is blinking on my phone. Weird, think I, who would have called me that early. Actually, it was late. When I played the message it had come in at 11:30 the previous evening. Normally I'm in the office until around then but not that night. Someone wanted me to write up her biography. I get these requests 2-3 times a year but not normally at night. She's a physician who lives forty miles north of me so it's not a time-zone issue.
I called back during normal hours. Got her answering machine. Left message. She returned that call, this time at 1:30 in the morning. I called back, left message suggesting we communicate by email or day-time phone.
Never heard from her again. We were two ships that pass in the night, I guess.
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