– Weekends have been quiet. On Friday, Jess fixed us a delicious roast. On Saturday, I attended my workshop on “innovate fiction” and later, Jess and I went into Manhattan to pick up supplies for her costume. I missed church on Sunday, but we carved pumpkins and roasted the seeds.

Follow links to learn about adventures and blue skies…

THE STATE OF BLUE SKIES FALLING

BLUE SKIES FALLING, LOOKING BACKWARDS
Baggage and Autobiographical Junk.
The Fourth Cycle in Review, Years 24-26: August 2001 – June 2004.
The Fourth Cycle in Review, Year 27: June 2004 – September 2005.

As of 30 October 2005.

I’ve been working on the blog somewhat industriously these last two months, but more in the sense of chronicling and archiving what’s been happening in Jess and my lives the last couple months and years.

THE YEAR of the SYNCHOPATED SAILOR ends on

1. DES’REE. Kissing You.

After proposing to Jessica in the summer sunlight the dim windowlessness and office oppression of Neurosurgery seemed stifling; a thing beneath me. I counted down the days til my assignment was done, because I felt the resentment on my back wherever I walked, and I there were several conflicts.

For almost everyone (anyone?) reading this, my journaling methods are a little arcane. It dates back to June 1991, when I was frustrated at not having a defined faith, and decided to invent my own, called Eventime. It’s untimately more of a philosophical perspective, or even a chronicling method than a religious orientation, and does not conflict with my Catholic faith.

I’m going to give an account of New York these last two months by place instead of by time. It’s an easier way to remember.

Our apartment is subletted from our friend Miranda. It is located on the fourth-floor of a rent-controlled building in the neighborhood of Fort Greene/Clinton Hill, specifically two blocks from the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

PLACES I’D LIKE TO LIVE BEFORE I DIE

Qualifiations:
“Living there” requires at least a three-month residency.
Underscored entries indicates Jessica’s preference.
Numerical scores (1 to 10) have only relative significance: a score of 1 still indicates a preference to “live” in a given place.

^{NOTE: Most of the information here, including components of the title, are obtained through The Historical Atlas of New York City: A Visual Celebration of 400 Years of New York City’s History by Eric Homberger, Henry Holt and Co., 1998.}

From the New York Times:

With Sox as Champions, Chicago Loses Its Second-City Feeling
By MONICA DAVEY
Published: October 27, 2005

CHICAGO, Oct. 27 – Eighty-eight years is a long time for a city to steep in humiliation.

But with one quick sweep of the baseball World Series, the Second City awoke today feeling, for once, not quite so insecure, not quite so predictable, not quite so second.

As you can see…

The following is excerpted from today’s Chicago Sun-Times, October 27th, 2005, Richard Roeper:

Shoeless Joe has left the corn field. There’s no need for him to linger in baseball purgatory any longer.

Let the South Side ghosts sleep in peace, for the White Sox have won the World Series — I’ll say that again, because it really hasn’t sunk in: THE WHITE SOX HAVE WON THE WORLD SERIES — and all the sins and failures and miserable seasons of the past are forgiven.