There's nothing like making sure you're busy.
I feel like I'm following in the footsteps of my oldest sister, though I'd never claim to be close to her family's level of innumerable commitments and responsibilities. I keep myself going, a full schedule, with the help of 3 calendars/planners. One is electronic. One is portable and in print. The final one stays in my kitchen on the wall.
Looking back at this semester, I think only one or two weekends were free from an event. And I'm tired. But my weekends are booked from now until, well, after Christmas.
I had Friday off of work this week only because I worked all day on Saturday. And although working on Saturdays is inherently lame, having the occasional Friday free from the office is great. You get to run around and do things while the majority of the world is working. It's liberating.
I decided on Friday that I would take my car back to the shop to have them check out the squeaking that had been going on since they changed my oil two weeks ago. As the laws of nature would have it, my car didn't squeak that morning. I knew that would happen. That's Lana Luck for you.
They ran a brake check anyway and found my brakes in great need of help. 5%-10% left on the front and 70% left on the back. Something was off. So they did all this stuff and I sat in the sun-warmed waiting room, reading, for 2 and 1/2 hours. There went my Friday morning (although I did finish the Boleyn Inheritance finally). And all my money.
I had grocerying to do and I wanted to wash my car, as it's been months since I've done that, but I'd spent $300 on two new brake pads and other brake "stuff" when I wasn't expecting to spend any. I got a minimal amount of groceries and called it a day.
The rest of the afternoon, as it was well into the afternoon once I made it home, was spent cleaning, straightening, lifting weights, watching movies, making music mixes, etc. These last two music mixes (Summer 07--Road Trip Replay and Fall 07--Stay with Me) are close to my favorites (for now). My mixes go like this: one for each semester or season so that I am creating a sort of chronological, autobiographical montage of the music I was listening to during any specific time (beginning when I was in grad school). The project has proved insightful. The two mixes that came out of last winter included a great deal of electronica and techno. Good choices for dreary winter.
2 comments:
That's an especially cool idea about the mixes. Generally, I end up giving my mixes names like "Fall 07" and "Finals Week" because I'm too lame to come up with better ones, but I really like the idea of doing it intentionally (and perhaps after the fact) for a period of time in one's life to create a sort of diary of music. Very nifty.
Well, let's just get you and your crazy sister (you meant the other one, right?) off to Mexico in less than two weeks with nothing to do! That should cure us or at least revive us enough to make it to Janaury.
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