New Cities/New Soviets

June 18, 2003

Standby System

Push Cart status: waiting on Ali to set up Health Dept. Inspection

Opening Night: ??? Maybe the 27th.

I've been knocked back into slow-time. The setback with Ali has stretched into over a week. Apparently, he paid his fine by check (why not money order?), and the Heath Department is making him wait until it clears. This is an irritating situation. I've missed my first (optimistic) opening date already, and I will not make the second (the 20th). The cart has gone from being days away to being weeks away.


Really, I should say that my time-space has suddenly decompressed. Instead of having something that needed to be done every day, I had 2-3 things I wanted to do all last week. Adding to the severity of the change, I took last week off from catering in case I was going to try to open on the 13th. That, and still needing to recover from my cold.

I have not accomplished the transition gracefully. William Gibson writes in All Tomorrow's Parties that grace is not anticipating. Not confusing not anticipating with not planning is still difficult for me. A redux of Plan and Schedual is much needed, but not tonight. Tonight just a few tidbits for my loyal readers, to let you know where I'm at...

A circadian cycle is 90 minutes long. Molly learned this from the TV, Discovery Health Channel. It was in a show about an experimenter who induced narcolepsy in rats and had a scientific love affair with another researcher (including much rapturous talk about how rare such a perfect compliment of approaches was, all lit up with their love light). Tee hee. Mol's description was delicious.

This fact has greatly improved my life. I don't know how sleep-artists like us could have been wrong about such an important point for so long. We were under the distinct impression a cycle was 4 hours long. This mistake has caused problems. Getting up in the middle of a cycle is a bitch, and you can lose hours just trying to shake the fog, particularly if you are sleep-starved. Also, knowing that a 3 hour nap is a real chunk of sleep (2 cycles!) is very helpful.

I set up a big planter with Egyptian mint on my roof. Together with the NYC Honey, it makes my mint iced tea taste great. On the mint tea tip, The Cosmic Cantina (where I tried to get a job once) is serving a version. It costs $2, $3 if you want it sweet (!), and it is kinda mediocre...I also saw a commercial this evening for a bottled mint iced tea. An idea whose time has come!

Last but not least, the Sunday before last I did barbeque roll photo shoot with my bud Jeremy. It was a great time and we got a fantastic picture. I can't wait to see how it comes out. I want to do something like his Chop Sake picture, which I have hanging in my kitchen. Something good to catch the attention of the inebriated.

Now I have to sign off and catch my two cycles before going to work.

Posted by Sam at June 18, 2003 04:49 AM

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