1. Not So Bad.
My dreaded return to the Day Jobbe was fairly minorly stressful and busy–much less crazy than I expected. Sure, there were loads of emails and my inbox was full and all that, but that’s normal. The bosses were stressed out, but pretty much not to do with me. Boss Man, already a Very Special Special Shiny Star, has been given the Massive Bureaucracy Oh So Special Lifetime Award for Extra Special Specialness With A Cherry On Top award, and his MBOSSLAFESSWACOT award speech (with associated foofaraw) was this afternoon. So, that involved me running over to the library at the last minute to try to find a better copy of a picture he was using in his PowerPoint talk (Fail–German medical journal from 1955 is stored off-site); an hour-long disquisition on steroidogenesis (Middling Win: interesting and well presented, of course, but I got fidgety, and I already understand all I’m ever likely to about steroidogenesis); and a wine and cheese reception afterwards (Win, as I’m sure I do not need to explain to anyone here).
2. But.
This is now Day 3 of Not Writing, because I’m off in a few minutes to go see David Byrne with the President of Glyptotronics. Okay, I’m certainly not complaining here; just noting. Noting, that is, that I’m in the final exciting moments of drafting a novel, and I am suddenly Not Writing. For very good reasons, but still. Not Writing.
3. Randomness and Promo. (not in that order)
3a. Promo. LOOKIE!! A starred review! And, yes, the book is all kinds of awesomeness. I’ve read it twice, and, yes: “…exuberantly odd, melodramatically ironic and dangerously wonderful” about describes it.
3b. Randomness, part the first. Alas, our dangerously wonderful writer is sick. Today’s notes to me ranged, over a few short hours, from “I am feeling sort of bleh and pre-sick” to “I’ve left that meeting and I’m skipping dinner and I hope I can make it back to the hotel before crashing.” 🙁
3c. Randomness, part the second. After over a year, the name for my car came to me on my drive yesterday. I’m not going to tell you what it is yet, though; I need to let it sit a few days and make sure it wasn’t drive-related fatigue-insanity, and do a little research to see if it’s going to work. But: good stuff. I think. I hope.
3d. Randomness, part the third: post-travel bits and pieces. Yes, I did make it to the PO yesterday, where I found the copies of Grants Pass I’d ordered. Yay! And, upon returning from the grocery store, I found perfectly decent rockstar parking. And, I’m so car-focused, I was actually going to drive to the Byrne talk tonight, before I realized (yet again) that I live on a Muni line, and that said Muni runs right past where I’m going. Duh. And, speaking of that, time to go.
I guess that’s about all from here. Now I gotta check that Muni schedule and get out of here!