NOW.
(A thing I do from time to time, in which I try get oriented.)
Clock says 9:40. Sitting at the work horse upstairs. J's coming over around midnight. So, 2 hrs 20 min left.
Thinking I want to go to bed at midnight; but there's slack, given J's timing. Question: how much? Maybe 12:30? I want to do a candle ritual... What should that look like? Green taper; light & meditate 1 min. Use office timer. Then lights out. Sacrifice whatever else I might have done after that time. [I've been following mood, which has been putting me to bed around 2 lately.]
Why? Defensible explination: I'm making breakfast tomorrow, but I also need to go to the bank... Bank is closed now, opens at 9am, therefore it makes sense to do the necessary grocery shopping in the morning. Less defensible explination: craving getting up early, to get a sense of control over things. ...Among which, is paying this bill that's a five days overdue now. Hm. Need to leave the house at 8:50, therefore set the alarm for maybe 8:30... Or 8, if I wanted to get my shave and shower in before everything else.
Breakfast menu: cheesy egg burrito, with faux sausage chunks, spinach, maybe lime juice. And caramelized apple crepes with real whipped cream. Feeling anxious; J is not easy to feed, and it pushes my buttons feeling like I need to perform to spec in the kitchen, rather than my usual experimental, in-my-own-good-time approach to creating new dishes.
Now: 2 hrs 8 min left. ...Got back from the board meeting at 8:45. Went better than I anticipated. Apparently a group of folks worked hard at the office today and got the Birthday invitations all mailed out. That success probably dissolved whatever festerment was going to drop on my head otherwise. Have a fundraising meeting next Monday, which will take some thinking ahead. Meeting with Aimee at 4:30, to start thinking about what we're going to do after the Birthday event is over. [Then the next day, I'm meeting with Aaron at *gasp* 7:30 in the morning for a "getting to know you" coffee.]
I put in 2 hrs 15 min today on Crisis Line prep, and about 1 hr 15 min on mail / bill work which indirectly contributed to the Crisis Line. Finally passed the donations that I collected from J & from Aimee on to Sheri. Also made a sizable donation myself. Actually, the largest single donation I've ever made, truth be told. ...Must remember to send a message to my mother, making arrangements about next month's finances. Hm. Think I'll open up a new email and do that right now. *please hold*
OK, done with that, and additionally checked how my overall finances looking. Pretty good; nowhere near what once they were -- but quite a bit better than last year this time, when the bursting tech bubble was bottoming out. Now, 1 hr 33 min left.
I think the #1 thing I want to get fixed at this moment is the iTunes problem. No way to know how long that will take. Might as well plan on it taking the rest of my time before seeing J.
Which takes care of what I'm doing tonight; but I still don't have anything like what I'd call a "plan" for tomorrow after my comfy chair chat date with J.
BRAINSTORM.
Still desperately need to go clothes shopping. That I envision as an all-day thing, so it might work well for this weekend -- gl. will be out of town. Unclear if she's skedaddling on Friday or Saturday.
Things have been so chaotic lately, it might make sense to pay bills early, to avoid missing deadlines. Don't have November money yet, but I could juggle things to pay everything but rent tomorrow. That would mean adjusting my errand to the bank. Might also want to get up a bit earlier, so I could do some math around that.
Random side-note: Interesting dream last night... I was in an advanced physics class at a college, first day of classes. There were lots of equations on the board, and I was very intently trying to copy them down into my note-pad. Trouble was my eyesight was being problematic. Couldn't decide if one of the equations had a lamda or the letter "L" in it. The prof was fascinating, very Richard Feynman in his enthusiasm. At the end of class, I decided I needed to talk to him about my eyesight -- I was excited about the class, and didn't want to get behind. He was kind and understanding, but also pointed out to me that most people don't get an erection from math. (!)
On another wild tangent: Finally figured out something that was driving me nuts. On the third episode of this season of Angel, there's a scientist who in the final scene gets bit by a werewolf. His speech was very distinctive, but I couldn't place it. A-ha! Dr. Flox, from Enterprise. OK, back to brainstorming.
Or, actually, seeing that it's now 10:44, I think instead I should pop off-line and read from "A Night in the Lonesome October". Perhaps more later. ...Time well-spent, or so it feels.
(A thing I do from time to time, in which I try get oriented.)
Clock says 9:40. Sitting at the work horse upstairs. J's coming over around midnight. So, 2 hrs 20 min left.
Thinking I want to go to bed at midnight; but there's slack, given J's timing. Question: how much? Maybe 12:30? I want to do a candle ritual... What should that look like? Green taper; light & meditate 1 min. Use office timer. Then lights out. Sacrifice whatever else I might have done after that time. [I've been following mood, which has been putting me to bed around 2 lately.]
Why? Defensible explination: I'm making breakfast tomorrow, but I also need to go to the bank... Bank is closed now, opens at 9am, therefore it makes sense to do the necessary grocery shopping in the morning. Less defensible explination: craving getting up early, to get a sense of control over things. ...Among which, is paying this bill that's a five days overdue now. Hm. Need to leave the house at 8:50, therefore set the alarm for maybe 8:30... Or 8, if I wanted to get my shave and shower in before everything else.
Breakfast menu: cheesy egg burrito, with faux sausage chunks, spinach, maybe lime juice. And caramelized apple crepes with real whipped cream. Feeling anxious; J is not easy to feed, and it pushes my buttons feeling like I need to perform to spec in the kitchen, rather than my usual experimental, in-my-own-good-time approach to creating new dishes.
Now: 2 hrs 8 min left. ...Got back from the board meeting at 8:45. Went better than I anticipated. Apparently a group of folks worked hard at the office today and got the Birthday invitations all mailed out. That success probably dissolved whatever festerment was going to drop on my head otherwise. Have a fundraising meeting next Monday, which will take some thinking ahead. Meeting with Aimee at 4:30, to start thinking about what we're going to do after the Birthday event is over. [Then the next day, I'm meeting with Aaron at *gasp* 7:30 in the morning for a "getting to know you" coffee.]
I put in 2 hrs 15 min today on Crisis Line prep, and about 1 hr 15 min on mail / bill work which indirectly contributed to the Crisis Line. Finally passed the donations that I collected from J & from Aimee on to Sheri. Also made a sizable donation myself. Actually, the largest single donation I've ever made, truth be told. ...Must remember to send a message to my mother, making arrangements about next month's finances. Hm. Think I'll open up a new email and do that right now. *please hold*
OK, done with that, and additionally checked how my overall finances looking. Pretty good; nowhere near what once they were -- but quite a bit better than last year this time, when the bursting tech bubble was bottoming out. Now, 1 hr 33 min left.
I think the #1 thing I want to get fixed at this moment is the iTunes problem. No way to know how long that will take. Might as well plan on it taking the rest of my time before seeing J.
Which takes care of what I'm doing tonight; but I still don't have anything like what I'd call a "plan" for tomorrow after my comfy chair chat date with J.
BRAINSTORM.
Still desperately need to go clothes shopping. That I envision as an all-day thing, so it might work well for this weekend -- gl. will be out of town. Unclear if she's skedaddling on Friday or Saturday.
Things have been so chaotic lately, it might make sense to pay bills early, to avoid missing deadlines. Don't have November money yet, but I could juggle things to pay everything but rent tomorrow. That would mean adjusting my errand to the bank. Might also want to get up a bit earlier, so I could do some math around that.
Random side-note: Interesting dream last night... I was in an advanced physics class at a college, first day of classes. There were lots of equations on the board, and I was very intently trying to copy them down into my note-pad. Trouble was my eyesight was being problematic. Couldn't decide if one of the equations had a lamda or the letter "L" in it. The prof was fascinating, very Richard Feynman in his enthusiasm. At the end of class, I decided I needed to talk to him about my eyesight -- I was excited about the class, and didn't want to get behind. He was kind and understanding, but also pointed out to me that most people don't get an erection from math. (!)
On another wild tangent: Finally figured out something that was driving me nuts. On the third episode of this season of Angel, there's a scientist who in the final scene gets bit by a werewolf. His speech was very distinctive, but I couldn't place it. A-ha! Dr. Flox, from Enterprise. OK, back to brainstorming.
Or, actually, seeing that it's now 10:44, I think instead I should pop off-line and read from "A Night in the Lonesome October". Perhaps more later. ...Time well-spent, or so it feels.
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