Category: on my mind

A most lovely weekend, which — despite whatever results from this coming week — will hopefully still remain wonderful in my mind.

• Went to my first Viennese Ball to watch K+E’s opening choreography. I’m glad that all their hard work paid off; it really looked like the two of them whipped everyone into shape. And their dances definitely had their cuteness stamp all over the choreography. I might actually be tempted to stay and dance next year… we’ll see. Also, a lesson: don’t throw out all your white dress shirts just because you’ll never need them for work.
• Saturday morning and early afternoon were, like, perfect.
• And then rehearsal started and it was pretty much sheer madness. The AD looked like he was re-choreographing the piece on the fly. My working memory was about 8 counts, and the girl’s been battling some ankle/foot injury and can’t go full out (which means I couldn’t copy or cue off her). So all we have to go by is some video captured on his phone of us weakly marking the steps. It’s going to be a long 10 weeks of rehearsal…
• Ran some errands on Sunday. Got a smog check for my car which cost $60; I guess not too many places are open on Sun. Went shooting with sister and some friends. Also first time I went to costco in a while. All those TVs near the entrance were calling me. Should I buy a TV and maybe a couch to go with it?
• The nights have been a bit quiet, so I’ve been making it through The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen. Some of these fairy tales are pretty serious, especially the ones he wrote later in his life.

• The problem with waking up to the oldies station is that sometimes they play “American Pie” and then you’re late to a work meeting. Probably a good thing not to listen to the classical station lest Dvorak 9 comes on.
• My sleep schedule hasn’t been this messed up ever. I think I’m going to go insane, or maybe just get sick. My neck feels sore for some reason, an unwelcome harbinger.
• Why is deepdiscount so slow? I just want my blu ray disc already. I think I’ve reached the point where saving $2 is not worth not having amazon prime shipping.
• This work project is exhausting. It’s like I prepared for a sprint and got shoved into a marathon. What doesn’t kill you…
• Admittedly a little nervous about this weekend. I’ll probably just wing it and see how it goes.

• Still basking in the afterglow of the Nutcracker performances from last weekend. Although perhaps a more accurate statement would be that I was completely stressed out for the past two weeks and this weekend I did about as little as possible, which was very relaxing. Somehow there was also a company holiday party in the mix that weekend — among the busiest.
• Aforementioned baskiness has been tempered by the fact that I developed ulcers again from the work and rehearsal schedule. Prilosec is pretty great these days.
• All the transportation has now been booked for the trip to India. Now I just need to book a few hotels and figure out all the odds and ends I should buy. Does anyone know if it’s safe to drink iodine tablet water for two whole weeks, or should I opt for a water filtration device of some sort? Or maybe a steripen?
• Realized that over a quarter of the books I’ve read this year were Harry Potters. On the other hand, I’m at 25 books so far, which is more than I’ve read in a single year since undergrad.
• Let’s not talk about the NBA season or the vetoed Chris Paul trade just yet. I need to come up with a coherent draft plan soon, but I don’t know what to do with the 4th draft pick.
• Also, Andrew Luck got robbed of the Heisman.