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October 10, 2007

Whew

Okay. I'm back. To sanity, to life, to consciousness.

What a crazy fucking week.

Where to begin?

How about here:

My flying trip to Boise for my gorgeous nephew's first birthday. I left campus immediately following my last class on Friday. I'd forgotten to have lunch, (my last class ends at 4pm) so I grabbed a burger (ugh) on my way out of town. I drove to Lewiston, checked my bag, went through security and hopped on the plane. I think I waited a grand total of 1/2 hour in the boarding area. And then it was go-go-go with an almost-toddler all weekend. So lovely. What a gorgeous boy he is. And now he is one. Where the hell has the time gone ?

While I was in Boise celebrating the Boy, I was also putting the finishing touches on a recording schedule for a set of voiceovers I'd been asked to coordinate. For a shoot my brother did locally. (He's been here for the past few days. I kept running into him on campus. It was awesome. Especially when: 1) I smacked him on the head in front of the crew before they knew who I was and 2) when the 1st AC called John my "older brother". Yessssssss.) Anyway, I had to squeeze in some late-night online time to get that all put together and workable.

And then there was the crisis. That took up a lot of my weekend too, specifically, the hours when I would normally be asleep. Only I couldn't be asleep, or even enjoying my nephew's adorableness because I was stressing over an issue that raised its head before I left town here.*

Seriously. I can't even talk about the roughest bit except to say that it involved email and made me not want to even touch my computer for several days. That's a big part of my absence here. And when I discovered it had been resolved this morning, my entire body relaxed. It's like the sun got turned on again.

Also adding to my lack of hours online and my scant postings here, of course, is also the whole teaching and grading thing. Which I love, but which is not exactly effortless. Nor is rehearsal, though it has also been a joy. And short. We've only done a full 4 hours one night this whole process, I think.

Not a joy has been the cold I seem to be fighting. I was in bed before 10 last night, though, and that seems to have made a great deal of difference. I'm feeling much better now.

And now that I have a major grading task more or less accomplished, now that I don't actually have to "teach" one class for the next three class periods because I very cleverly arranged to have other people do that, now that two other classes of mine are all about the student sharing, and a fourth is being led by my partner, and I've done all of my lesson plans for the fifth for the next week or so, now I can take a step back, do a little grading, post here, focus on tech for Clean House and maybe do some art. And also get some sleep. Because, Dude, after the week I've had, I'm tired.

*No, it's nothing to do with my marriage. David is wonderful. I am very lucky to have him in my life.

Posted by sally at October 10, 2007 09:36 PM

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