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Nov. 6th, 2004 08:36 pmFirst things first. Rather than waiting until the last minute, I thought I would mention that I am reading at Dreamhaven Books a bit over a week from now, on Tuesday, November 16th, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Please note that's not this Tuesday but next Tuesday. I'll post again, probably on Monday, November 15th, saying something like, "oh, shoot, I meant to remind people about this earlier..." Dreamhaven Books is a much better place for a reading than the coffeeshop I read at in August. It's nice and quiet rather than being an echoey box. The downside is that they don't sell coffee. However, people usually go out afterwards for pizza.
I will probably be reading from Freedom's Apprentice, the sequel to Freedom's Gate. I sent Anne the revised manuscript last week.
On to more journal-y stuff. Today was beautiful. I've noticed that the later it gets in the year, the more urgently I seize any opportunity to do stuff outside on a nice day. Ed took the girls out in the morning and I got some writing done. At about 1 p.m. I dragged my bike out of the basement, stretched, and headed out biking. The newest stretch of the Midtown Greenway opened up today -- this is a rails-to-trails biking/walking trail that runs along a corridor just north of Lake Street, starting (now) at Hiawatha Avenue and running west out to St. Louis Park. I'm not actually sure how far it goes, I've never made it past that strip mall with Little Tel Aviv, home of the dairy-free eclair.
Alas, no eclair today (they're closed on Saturdays) but I biked out to Bryant Avenue, then wandered around the neighborhood a bit, trying to get a look at the buildings that have blank basement walls facing the greenway and fantasizing about opening a spiffy restaurant that would have a patio right on the greenway. (Most of the restaurants in the Twin Cities that have patios also have traffic noise. A greenway patio would have nothing but the soothing sound of passing bikes and pedestrian conversation.) I returned to Hiawatha via the greenway, then went downtown on this funky bike path that follows the light rail line. For future reference, I do not recommend trying to bike from 7th to the river on Hennepin Avenue. There is in fact a bike lane, but it's in the middle of the street, between the westbound bus-only lane and the eastbound traffic lanes. That in itself is kind of nerve-wracking, even in Saturday afternoon traffic, but then, a few blocks west of the river, the eastbound section of the bike lane ends, without warning, stranding you in the middle of Hennepin Avenue.
There is one of those lovely spiral ramps that leads down to the River Road, though. But just past the Mill Ruins Museum, the road and bike path were both blocked by a fence to prevent you from crossing a construction zone. I stared at it for a minute, thinking, What the hell is this? A half-finished bridge? ....ohhhhhhhhhh it's the new Guthrie. (The new Guthrie has this bizarre projection sprouting off the front that has inspired a lot of local humor about boy architects with Freudian issues. It really does look like they were going to build a bridge and then funding got cut, or something.) So I had to detour. I got home around 4:30.
I will probably be reading from Freedom's Apprentice, the sequel to Freedom's Gate. I sent Anne the revised manuscript last week.
On to more journal-y stuff. Today was beautiful. I've noticed that the later it gets in the year, the more urgently I seize any opportunity to do stuff outside on a nice day. Ed took the girls out in the morning and I got some writing done. At about 1 p.m. I dragged my bike out of the basement, stretched, and headed out biking. The newest stretch of the Midtown Greenway opened up today -- this is a rails-to-trails biking/walking trail that runs along a corridor just north of Lake Street, starting (now) at Hiawatha Avenue and running west out to St. Louis Park. I'm not actually sure how far it goes, I've never made it past that strip mall with Little Tel Aviv, home of the dairy-free eclair.
Alas, no eclair today (they're closed on Saturdays) but I biked out to Bryant Avenue, then wandered around the neighborhood a bit, trying to get a look at the buildings that have blank basement walls facing the greenway and fantasizing about opening a spiffy restaurant that would have a patio right on the greenway. (Most of the restaurants in the Twin Cities that have patios also have traffic noise. A greenway patio would have nothing but the soothing sound of passing bikes and pedestrian conversation.) I returned to Hiawatha via the greenway, then went downtown on this funky bike path that follows the light rail line. For future reference, I do not recommend trying to bike from 7th to the river on Hennepin Avenue. There is in fact a bike lane, but it's in the middle of the street, between the westbound bus-only lane and the eastbound traffic lanes. That in itself is kind of nerve-wracking, even in Saturday afternoon traffic, but then, a few blocks west of the river, the eastbound section of the bike lane ends, without warning, stranding you in the middle of Hennepin Avenue.
There is one of those lovely spiral ramps that leads down to the River Road, though. But just past the Mill Ruins Museum, the road and bike path were both blocked by a fence to prevent you from crossing a construction zone. I stared at it for a minute, thinking, What the hell is this? A half-finished bridge? ....ohhhhhhhhhh it's the new Guthrie. (The new Guthrie has this bizarre projection sprouting off the front that has inspired a lot of local humor about boy architects with Freudian issues. It really does look like they were going to build a bridge and then funding got cut, or something.) So I had to detour. I got home around 4:30.
