Diary #411

Today I’m en route to Chicago, where I’ll meet my friend Claudia for dinner before heading over to the hotel where I’ll be spending the night with Ghost Rider; tomorrow he’ll take me back to the airport, and early Thursday morning I’ll be landing in London to spend two lovely weeks ranging up and down the island with Brooke Magnanti.  On Friday we’ll board a train for Scotland, then on the weekend of the 26^th we’ll be at the Hay Festival in Wales before returning to London on the 29^th; I’m going to take a quick trip across the channel on the 30^th and fly home from Paris on the 31^st.  If you’d like to see me while I’m there, please let me know ASAP; otherwise you’ll have to wait for my next trip over, whenever that is.  Keep your eyes open for photo columns on May 25^th and June 1^st, and on Monday there will be a special feature…my first short story in over a year!  If you’re a subscriber, you should’ve already received your copy; if you didn’t, let me know and I’ll get you one as soon as I return to the US.  And if you aren’t a subscriber, keep your eyes open Monday for instructions on how to get a copy for yourself!  In the meantime, I’m going to be traveling a lot until the weekend, so Twitter fans may not see me on as much; even after that, I’m probably going to be on at weird times.  But never fear; all my work (except for diaries & photo columns) is already queued up until the 2^nd, because OCD.  Most days, you probably won’t even know I’m a third of the way around the world from my usual haunts.