Eccentric Flower:200004/April is the cruelest month

My little pixie Sfoglio numbers these entries in sequence for me. It's wonderful because I never have to worry about the naming and the filing and the linking; it's disheartening because it provides an inescapable marker of neglect. I generally finish neck-and-neck; that is, in an average month I average the same number of entries as there are days in the month. But here it is, the twenty-fifth of April by an hour, which means I'm barely managing one entry for every two days. Eliot was right.

And I bet you thought I didn't think about these things.

Oh, yes, I go through the usual traumas. The difference is that, unlike Patrick or Kymm, I did not and will not commit to updating this thing every day. If I did that, I really wouldn't get any writing done, and my fiction output the last two months has been dismal as is. Although I have an excuse.

Speaking of Kymm and April's cruelty, she writes today:
So, I woke up this morning and looked out the window and the sky was a funny colour, blue, I think they call it, and it was all bright and strange and there was this thing in the sky and I was just so confused.

I turned on the TV and they said that it was a beautiful day, but I'm certain that they were mistaken, as this is the Land of Rain.

Obviously they're doing something right further down the coast, because up here in Boston it is still the Land of Rain. The Red Sox have just had four rainouts in a row for the first time since 1976. The odd thing is that an April rainy streak in New England is seldom that all-at-once flash-flood kind of rain you see in, say, Louisiana in the spring, when it comes down sudden and thick and fast and you want to pull your car over to the side of the road but you're scared to because someone will plow along the shoulder right into you because no one can see more than five feet in front of themselves.

No, in New England it just gets gray and dismal and wet. And stays that way.

Good thing for me I'm chained to my computer, eh? Nothing to see out there anyway.

Meanwhile life continues to be at full-stop, but at least a lot of code is getting written.