So, I’ll be featuring at the Bowery Poetry Club a week from Thursday.

I’m really looking forward to this — originally, it was to be the start of an entire weekend in NYC, but now I have to be back here in MA for an appointment the next day. Which sucks a bit, but I’ll take any NYC I can get.

Figuring on getting into the city by 4:30 or so, with any luck; hope to be bringing my high school buddy Skip with me for the show; and still desperately figuring out what I want to do with my 20 odd minutes on stage.

I’m looking at a short mix of old and new stuff, balanced toward the new, with a de-emphasis on the more overtly political work (although if Lynne Procope is there, I suppose I’ll pull out “Political Art” for her…she requests it every time I see her, and I’ve not done it the last few times).

And I expect that the NY crowd will be there, yes?

More later.

I’m in the home stretch of waiting for the appointment with my new meds guy next week.

I already feel better, but shaky as hell; feel like the least blow will throw me off.

I’m also struck by the number of people who have told me to simply “cheer up”, or who have offered their own tips for how to not “feel blue”, or who have said, “well, we all get that way near the holidays…”

So, for the record, here are some things I’ve tried that don’t work for me, to save you some time…

— Full spectrum lighting
— The Bible
— Meditation
— Just making room for “me time”
— Journaling, or (alternately) “writing out my feelings in poetry” (I shit you not — from someone IN MY FAMILY last week!)
— A glass of wine after dinner
— Getting more sleep ( this to a chronic insomniac with severe sleep apnea)

Thank you.

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I’ve decided that the CD with Bob Jordan will likely be new work written for the project. Maybe even some of the Fugue State work would be appropriate…

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I really need to buy a new laptop. We’re down to a one computer household, and with my wife doing all her business stuff (she runs a marketing firm out of the house) on the existing desktop, we’re fighting for computer time left and right.

Her laptop died sometime ago, and my Powerbook is on longterm loan to my brother in law (an old model I hadn’t used much lately).

Come to think of it, SHE should buy the laptop for the business.

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