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I'm coming apart at the seams.
It's been a long time since I've really whined to ya, hasn't it? I know you've missed it, so here you go! Be happy! I'm not!
Between today 10/4 and Saturday 10/28, I have only TWO NIGHTS free. TWO. I need to hire a secretary, because clearly putting ME in charge of MY time is a big mistake. No wonder I never get any quilting done! Good thing fabric doesn't rot the way food does or we'd have some serious issues going on in the dining ("quilting") room. And when do I plan on watching TV, the other most important thing in my life? By the time this month is over, I will have 897 hours recorded into my DVR/Tivo combos and NO TIME to watch!!!
Not even considering the things I have scheduled for DAYS, including work, darkroom time, nephew birthday parties, and brunch scheduled in so I can see people I've only managed to see maybe once in the past two months, this is what we're looking at for NIGHTS only:
[updates on 10/10]
10/4 - class
10/5 - class & mom arrives (have to eat out)
10/6 - rehearsal dinner
10/7 - wedding
10/8 - ONE FREE NIGHT (take mom to dinner?) Driving back to Chicago all night, arrived home around 11 p.m.
10/9 - work
10/10 - darkroom Bad, bad, bad, bad sore throat. Likely skipping and staying home tonight.
10/11 - class If throat is still sore, skipping this to stay home and rest (watch TV).
10/12 - class
10/13 - photo exhibit
10/14 - concert
10/15 - work
10/16 - work
10/17 - SECOND FREE NIGHT
10/18 - class
10/19 - class
10/20 - rhinebeck friday night dinner helloooo
10/21 - rhinebeck saturday night dinner
10/22 - dinner in NYC
10/23 - work
10/24 - darkroom
10/25 - class
10/26 - class
10/27 - concert
10/28 - CAROLYN GETS HER LIFE BACK. HOPEFULLY.
[updates on 10/10]
Yes let's not even talk about the fact that some of those Nights have more than just "work" coming before them in the daytime. And those nights that say "Work" ? Yeah, that's not a joke. That's scheduled in and while I will go in to work later than normal, I won't be able to do much those mornings other than maybe pick up dry cleaning that I can't get to on the weekends when I'm traveling or in the darkroom and perhaps buy some groceries?
I already know I'm taking my mom out to dinner Thursday night when she arrives as there is not one iota of food in the house, unless she wants a hardboiled egg? And likely on Sunday, #1 free night, I wll have to take her to dinner as well, as how are we going to buy food before then when we have a 6 hr drive Friday, rehearsal dinner Friday night, wedding Saturday night, and 6 hr drive back on Sunday. Can't just skip dinner. Like me, my mom gets cranky if you don't give her food. :)
What is the brighter side to this? (Ha!) Well, clearly I have no time for eating except for the times I've scheduled brunch so I should be able to continue my 1500 calorie days without much pain and agony (other than the pain and agony of being hungry all the time!). I can only go to the gym on a couple of those day/night combo days so I won't be able to be mad at myself for not going because there just is no damn time to go. Hence, NOT MY FAULT! Yea! That's what we like to have: Guilt-free gym ignoring.
So in concert news:
Isn't that what's most intriguing about the nights? On the first one, I'm going to see Beck, which I am totally excited about. The other time I had tickets for Beck was the Field Day Festival in 2003 when they spent 30 minutes setting up the stage, and then as he was walking backstage, he fell and hit his head and had to go to the emergency room. So we had to wait another 45 minutes for them to take down his stage and put up the Beasties and he never played! Plus I got his new album last night and I'm already listening to it and I like it! Bonus! :)
Concert #2 is the Indigo Girls. Do you know about my history with the IGs? Let's see. One of my best friends on earth that I don't even know how to contact anymore but that's another story - his sister went to college with them. THEY PLAYED AT HIS SISTER'S WEDDING. How cool is that. Then, when living in NYC and going to see them four or five times, I dated a boy who formerly worked at a bar in Athens where they played a lot when they were getting started and he was always (still) getting backstage passes whenever they played the Beacon (but didn't bring me backstage. What a bastard. Good riddance!). Then the fifth or sixth time Ginger and I went to see them, we went to Portsmouth a little town in westchester and we waited out back for an hour or whatever after the concert and not only did we get their autographs, we got our pictures taken with them! Very cool right! I would show you one except I'd have to scan them in and my scanner is mad at me right now. Bygones. Although I did not buy their new album and likely won't, I still felt the need to go to the concert as it's now been about 10 years since the last time I saw them, and they are always really great live, they always really fill the space they're given, and it's so much easier to get tickets to things here I find than in NY and I feel the need to take advantage of it. I have never heard them play "Crazy Games", one of my all-time favorite songs, in concert and even though that's one of their oldest songs and the fact that they never played it the 6 or 7 other times I saw them does not bode well, I'm keeping my fingers crossed nonetheless.
Recently I've seen:
Gnarls Barkley (super fun, similar in energy to a Scissor Sisters show if you've ever seen them), Snow Patrol (good. totally dramatic. but a little repetitious), and Sufjan Stevens (good, but completely different than last time. last time=peppy, happy, high energy. this time=slow, sad, lonely, miserable. sounded good but not exactly an upper of a show).
OK well I better get back to my ridiculous life here before things get away from me and I accidentally schedule something on the 28th or 29th when I plan to do nothing but SLEEP. In fact, let me get out a sharpie right now and mark SLEEEEEP across that weekend. JUST IN CASE! My dreams of finishing at least four of the six quilts in production right now before year-end...they are fading fast!
and p.s. I am closing up the comments on earlier entries as I keep hearing rumors about vicious comment spam and I don't want to tempt the Gods. Ha. The Gods of Spam. Did I tell you how we convinced one of our classmates in 9th or 10th grade that we had seen the Spam animal at the Minneapolis Zoo? That is still so damn funny.
Posted by Duff at October 04, 2006
It's clear, you need to quit your job. You just don't have time for it anymore.
p.s. I love a good Spam story. :)
Posted by: melanie at October 4, 2006 11:15 AM
I'm just jealous about how often you get to leave the house.
Can't wait to see you at Rhinebeck. It's been way too long.
Posted by: cari at October 4, 2006 11:19 AM
Dude. That's insane. I would say there will be forced relaxing at Rhinebeck, but we're going to have 7 girls in our suite. There's nothing relaxing about that at all. ;) Can't wait to see you!
Posted by: Jenn at October 4, 2006 11:26 AM
I'm glad to see you've squeezed Rhinebeck in there dude! Maybe you need some mental health days from work?
Posted by: Silvia at October 4, 2006 11:51 AM
At least some of that is fun, dude?
I hope you have some ideas for dinners around Rhinebeck, me, I haven't a clue.
Posted by: Jackie at October 4, 2006 12:50 PM
I'd never survive your schedule--I'm way too attached to my couch.
Posted by: alice at October 4, 2006 01:16 PM
I totally empathize. I am pretty much booked solid through the 8th of December. Yes, you read that right. UGH! Hang in there!
Posted by: molly at October 4, 2006 05:27 PM
I hope that some of the schedule is fun stuff! I'm booked all the way through the first week of November, and have started double-booking. I wish I could say it's 'cause I'm popular, but I think that I'm really just slightly nuts.
Posted by: Gloria at October 4, 2006 09:39 PM
oh, that seems a lot, but you also have Rhinebeck, for which I am totally jalous :) Bon courage ma chère, et amuse-toi bien quand même!
Posted by: Stéphanie at October 5, 2006 02:32 AM
This sounds exhausting, but also lots of fun, right? I mean, Beck! Yay for Beck.
Oh, and I've got a good idea: do Nanowrimo, starting November 1st, and you'll have no free nights in November either! :-)
Posted by: marrije at October 5, 2006 02:58 AM
I relate so very much to this entry: The guilt-free gym-ignoring, the easy 1500 under and calorie diet because there's simply not time to eat, and definitely, definitely the "how am I ever gonna catch up on my television shows?!" -- and I don't even have a DVR -- I'm working with VHS here, so you know -- with no time to actually label tapes -- at least 2879 of the 897078979 hours will get taped over or just plain lost.
But fortunately, my crazycrazy days are just through October, as well.
Good luck!
KJ
Posted by: KJ at October 5, 2006 04:21 AM
Dude you are crazy.
Posted by: Amy at October 5, 2006 09:47 AM
That's too much structure, chica. Good luck getting through!
Posted by: Kwon at October 5, 2006 06:57 PM
Enjoy your day off!
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