just when i’ve finally got time to write to slithy tove, my hosting company goes down, taking slithy tove and my email server with it. and, since i set my company’s web site up with the same host earlier this year, also no work email. earthlink’s DNS server or whatever can’t even find an entry for the parent company. not a good sign. it’s like going to mail a letter and discovering that the entire post office is gone. disturbing, how much of a void something that doesn’t actually have a physical presence can still leave in its absence.

and speaking of mail, lately i wonder if my junk mail is trying to tell me something. i keep getting “welcome to the neighborhood” postcards (thank you, People’s Gas and Commonwealth Electric, for selling my personal information) from a) renters’ insurance companies and b) doctors and hospitals. do they know something i don’t know? an apartment fire is imminent? my appendix is hovering just this side of septic?