April 7, 2011

• Take it slow, take it easy on me, and shed some light, shed some light on me please

  So the next couple of weeks are suddenly packed with activities. How did this happen, and why did I let it happen? I have too many interests, dammit! Coming up:

  • Tonight: One more hour of work, then pedicure, grocery store, make a double batch of chili, do at least 1 load of laundry, and pack for the chorus retreat this weekend.
  • Tomorrow: One more stupid day of work, leave at 2pm, drive to the retreat in Estes (I'm staying at the YMCA! haha). Sneak in one night of sanity (dinner in my hotel room in my PJs, bed early) before the insanity of the weekend begins.
  • Saturday: Breakfast at 7am (NO!!!!!!!!!!!!), then rehearsal until noon, potluck lunch 12-1, then rehearsal until 5. Dinner break, then the variety show (I'm singing Jewel's "You Were Meant For Me" while a friend from chorus sings harmony and plays guitar).
  • Sunday: Do it all again, end at 2pm. Go to hotel, collapse from vocal-and-being-around-90-girls-for-2-days exhaustion.
  • Monday: Drive home, unpack, enjoy my last day of sanctuary before work starts all over again.
  • Tuesday: Work in the morning, off-site meeting all afternoon, drive back downtown, attend a Doug Linkhart for Mayor event at a colleague's house (Linkhart will be there, which is cool.)
  • Work, half day off-site meeting, work. Then more work taking minutes for a work-related organization (I get paid extra, and free dinner, but still...)
  • Thursday: A quiet day? Maybe going to a makeup and hair show at Rockstar Lounge because it looks cool and I was invited.
  • Friday-Saturday: More potentially quiet days (!!!)
  • Sunday: Attending a V-Day event (Any One of Us: Words from Prison). Psyched since I missed out on the Vagina Monologues this year. Then chorus rehearsal 5-9.
  • After that: Relative calmness.
  • There's probably some school stuff sprinkled in there too, but I don't know what yet. This class is so boring and easy.
  • May is going to be similar: lots of meetings, rehearsals (including my shows for chorus), and events (including 9 to 5 AND Billy Elliott!).

  In other news, I'm doing girly things for myself: my hair is freshly dyed red (it was faded to strawberry blond, even getting dangerously close to  blah blond), and I'm getting a pedi tonight (yes, I said pedi; deal with it). I'm avoiding visiting family because I don't want the stress which comes almost entirely from my sister being a mess, and from my continual resentfulness toward my mother. More and more I think about the fact that I'm actually going to graduate from college (not until December of next year, but it's finally starting to feel real) and that means I can go for a job that does not involve making someone's copies. Even though the chorus has taken up a big chunk of my life, I'm toying with starting to learn guitar again. Jennifer just bought (a really sexy) one, and maybe we can learn together? I don't know. It's something I've always wanted to do, but not enough to really charge ahead full steam. My fingers currently feel like ice cubes because it's always too goddamn cold at my desk. And my eyes are watering because I have allergic conjunctivitis, and my foot hurts because I have a cyst on top of the right one, in between 2 long foot bones. (Prognosis: they'll have to go away on their own, and that'll be $30.)

  I could pretty much listen to Placebo all day long. I'll probably never get over that angsty part of myself, especially when I hear the acoustic version of Teenage Angst.

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