so here's the thing

I'm separating myself from the computer, social media, Facebook, Twitter, etc, for a certain amount of time. I'm sure that I'll be keeping an eye on e-mail (maybe), checking up on the news, et al (I'm worried about Morgan City, Louisiana, for instance), but I don't intend to be as tied to my daily lifeline as I usually am.

I plan to take a book with me, almost certainly Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace, which I've been wanting to read for some time. now I do not know at all that I am temperamentally or stylistically suited to make it all the way through Infinite Jest (I'm giving myself just about 10 days), and it'll be okay if I'm not (though that will mean that I'll have to scramble to find another reading task with whatever "not tied to the computer" time remains), but I'm going to take some time off regardless, and then come back with a heavy, heavy push to mid-August when I'll quit interviewing folks for the 49 year old book and possibly, probably "go away" again.

wish me luck.

in my absence I'll be posting some non-random quotes from David Lipsky's Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace, a book conjured from Infinite Jest book tour conversations between Lipsky and Wallace back in 1996, well before Wallace's 2008 suicide (though he had obviously given the subject some previous thought).

enjoy (and happy birthday to Will and Rob (not me; the other Rob)).



"That’ll be me you’ll see
Walking away
That’ll be me you’ll see
For the last time today
That’ll be me you’ll see
For not very long
’cause that’ll be me
You’ll see
That’ll be gone"