How to Disappear Completely
10 things I’ve been doing that have prevented me from updating this blog:
1. Listening obsessively to Phish’s fall 1997 tour, all the way through, and missing them intensely. This includes lots of chair dancing at work and on the bus and resisting (so far) the urge to post on PT about how Trey DID flub things back in 1997 (see: every Theme played on this tour, and a spectacularly horrible Wilson in Cleveland) and how people who complained about song choice after hiatus should shut the fuck up because they weren’t particularly expansive on this tour either and just because you LIKE 2001, Black-Eyed Katy, My Soul, and Theme doesn’t mean they didn’t play them almost every show.
2. Watching Celebrity Love Island. (Shut up.)
3. Enjoying time with M’s family, who were in London for 9 days last week. Yummy visits to lots of favourite restaurants, my first trip on the London Eye (finally!), and getting to host a dinner party for people other than my husband.
4. Sweating. A lot. All the time. Especially at work, where the air con breaks every time the temperature goes over 30 degrees (which, DUH, is when the stupid thing is supposed to actually work). I actually am enjoying the heat and having a proper summer, but an office without AC is truly unbearable.
5. Going to Wimbledon to see the men’s final courtesy of BT, complete with champagne, Pimm’s, and strawberries and cream.
6. Taking the train to Paris for the day for a meeting with our ad agency who happens to have a spectacular office in the middle of the Champs Elysees with a gorgeous roof deck where we ate lunch and I contemplated both chaining myself to the building so I wouldn’t have to leave and skipping out on the second part of the day to go shopping because the sales were on. Neither of which I did, of course.
7. Planning our trip to Paris with D and J at the end of August and our 5th anniversary trip to Spain in September. Both of which are a nice consolation for not being able to stay in Paris for more than 6 hours the other week, and which has led to…
8. Counting the number of vacation days I have left for this year and obsessively trying to maximize them. With Paris and Spain and Christmas (wherever we end up) accounted for, I have 4 days left to play with. That’s enough for two long weekends (one of which will be Prague, I think). Suggestions welcome.
9. Working, despite all evidence to the contrary.
10. Uploading pictures, organizing pictures, labelling pictures, pictures pictures pictures. Go see Flickr if you don’t believe me. More coming soon. And since we all know that pictures are an essential part of the blog, that’s almost as good as updating.
So there.