With a grunt and a shove and a five week hiatus I've cast off from my Middleware coast. As Bill James put it, I'm breaking the wand. Saying goodbye. Sayonara. This was a fun little experiment but at this point the rigors of a full time job plus all of the other intellectual / writing projects I'm working on preclude spending x minutes working on a weekly column about San Diego. The good news is that I'm writing more than ever; the bad news is that it's less condensed, much more freeform, and much less refined : I might skip from musing about a new programming language to comments on the novel I'm rereading to a scrap of poetry I happened to write while sipping an oil can from the beach.

 

Another way of putting this is that I've outgrown writing a regular, refined piece about San Diego because now I write daily blathering prose-am about this city and this little piece of the world that I occupy, and while I couldn't have learned to do what I'm doing now without doing a weekly column, at some point the student outgrows the classroom, even one of his own design.

 

The sum of my creative output can be found at http://www.oropeza.net . The site is my research blog plus my collection of recent fiction and poetry. I still plan to have project pages for my various playpens, which are currently 1) My Bay Area themed fiction/poetry collection 26 Miles Offshore (check out my newly-completed poem 26 Miles Offshore here), 2) my collection of new poems and stories loosely categorized under the rallying cry How Did We Live In Such Ignorance, and 3) my novel-in-progress, And On The Sixth Day. Look for unique sites for each of these projects very soon, I'll be posting links here.

 

Cheers,

 

Jon