progress

i've finally broken into the point of my time in morocco where i began to take journal writing somewhat seriously. it is making the completion of this project so much easier. the combined sources of my posts here on the site from that time, which covered a lot of surface topics and general news, and my journal entries, which were often much more obtuse but given to painting more accurate mental landscapes of any given point in time, are really making things move.

i was talking to andy glynn the other night at the party(it was great fun getting to see you guys by the way), and explaining how greatly i had underestimated the travel memoirs. the first book i wrote over there spanned maybe six months in plot-time. i had conceptualized the morocco book to be about the same length, but hadn't appreciated the fact that i'm trying to think back and write on two years, four times the amount of mental head-getting-aroundness.

so it's such a relief getting into more charted waters. it was really frustrating having to think back so hard on the various events of the first year - i often would be out of it for an hour or two after finishing, having to refocus on the here and now.

in other news, gamefly is making me irritable. i'm most likely cancelling my subscription once my next game arrives… whenever that will happen. it took three or four days for them to mark my returned game as received, and it's been seven days since the next game was marked as shipped. this is ridiculous. i e-mailed them about it. i understand that my two day turnaround on netflix is spoiling me to a degree, but come on. ten+ days to return and receive a new game? i can have two games out a month IF i play each for less than five days.

peace