Fiction author Robin Brande talks about writing, reading, and other vital matters

First, a disclosure: I am really, really strung out on sleeplessness right now. So I have no idea if what I write will make any sense.

I am writing to you from the future: specifically, 5 hours ahead of some of you, 8 ahead of others. The future is so . . . radical. People talk funny here. It’s like watching PBS. (In case you haven’t been reading this lately, I’m in London as of this morning/afternoon, depending on whether you’re from my present or my past.)

It was a 10-hour flight. Ten hours of being treated like veal: kept in our tiny confined spaces, continuously fed. We had full dinners at 10:30 PM, then breakfast at 5:00 AM or 1:00 PM, depending on whether you’re me or the flight attendants from the future who were serving me.

I’m both sorry and happy to report (only because of my promise to try something different) that my only and best chance for coffee was at the Starbucks at London Heathrow. I’m sure I’m not the only American who has stepped up to the counter and cried.

So now it’s morning or afternoon where you are, nighttime here, and by tomorrow I’ll be fully English and from your future, and no longer trying to straddle these time zones. But for right now, I feel your uncertainty about what might happen in the next 5 to 8 hours, and so I wanted to tell you, before I pass out and dream that I’m still not sleeping and my keepers are shoving even more food in through my cage, that the future is fine, we’re all fine here, there’s nothing to be afraid of. So go ahead and keep doing what you’re doing. I’ll let you know if anything changes.

By the way, I’ve already begun my British Chocolate Experiment, and let me tell you, these people know what they’re doing. I just had a Green & Black’s Organic Milk Chocolate with Hazelnuts, Almonds, & Brazil Nuts. If a chocolate bar takes that long to type out, you know it has to be fantastic.

Night, night.

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Posted on Wednesday, June 21st, 2006 at 11:54 am under Life, Chocolate, Jane Austen Geekery . Subscribe to responses: RSS 2.0 Comment Feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.