Subject: Re: web page
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 08:58:11 -0500
From: Sally Greene <sally@metalab.unc.edu>
To: gilmer@ballistic.com

The picture does look nice and I see you're getting more stuff up. Have
you made a public announcement yet?

It's finally warm and beautiful here. Our dogwoods are doing better than
expected, and that's good, since 4 of them are in my newly landscaped
bank. However, four of the bank of azaleas in the back, four all the
same kind, don't have nearly as many blooms on them as they did last
year (you can still see the dead blooms from last year so it's easy to
tell). I've fertilized them all, maybe to excess in fact. I've got major
plans for other parts of the yard, but if I manage to let go of those
beautiful azaleas it'll be at least as bad as losing half a holly tree.

Friday night we're going to see Reynolds Price accept the North Carolina
Award at an early-evening banquet; expensive tickets and the food will
not be good, but seemed worth doing. This is different from the
Governor's Award that both Elizabeth Spencer and Betty Adcock have
received. It's a private thing, given by a literary society at UNC.

I did think that yes, Beverly Lowry or Shelby Hearon could have answered
my call, but they left. Both for deeply personal reasons I am sure, but
I can't help thinking that they didn't quite feel at home as writers there.

I never could understand Jim Lee's aversion to owning things. It made an
impression on me years ago that he said he'd rent a car if it made any
kind of economic sense.  I appreciate the idea of not wanting to be tied
down in this world, but I could never carry it off.

We will be going to Paris provided that my colleague Anne Slifkin gets
permission from her landlord there to sublet. She decided to wait till
her deposit check was safely deposited to even ask. That has now
happened, so we'll know soon.  They are renting a place in the 5th
arrond. for six weeks but are taking a side trip to Israel where both
she and her spouse have sisters living. That's the 10 days that we can
have, around July 11-21.

Paul's Cisco is up 10 points from what he bought it at. Worldcom is down
a few points lately, to 89, but the analysts say it's merely a good
buying opportunity (there's some fear that they may be about to do
another big acquisition). I've gotten to where I don't even look at the
Times any more. As of April 1 (i.e. last week) it would cost me $75 to
trade out of it at Fidelity, even on-line. They've just changed their
policies, obviously to discourage frequent stock trades. My only comfort
is that the analysts aren't saying "sell" yet. And I still can't quite
believe it can stay so bad. But clearly it is an "old business model" company.

Better go home and see what Paul and Tucker have been doing all day.