Day 5

I’m finding that on a daily basis, I don’t have a ton of stuff to say. I’m not the most talkative person in my family, either, believe it or not.

I’ve been watching The West Wing and listening to The West Wing Weekly, a podcast made by a major Aaron Sorkin fan and Josh Malina, one of the actors from the show. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve watched the entire series all the way through, but it’s a lot. The podcast is always on, while I work or shower or whatever. I like their voices. I like the way they make each other laugh.

Last night I dreamed that I was at an office job someplace, and Josh Malina stopped by my desk to tell me something. He leaned down next to my desk and told me he was getting married (in real life he’s married, to a woman he always refers to on the podcast as “the lovely Melissa,” which is sweet). In the dream, after the announcement, I said, Well, that sucked.

I don’t know if I was criticizing the delivery or the news itself, but that seemed harsh. Sorry, Josh. I think you’ve been married a long time, and you seem happy. I wish you nothing but a life of joy, and to be in my TV more often.

Day 4

I went to flute choir tonight because I won’t be able to go this weekend on Sunday because I’m getting a facial.

It was fun, and hard. The day started out weird when I messed up the coffee three times; by the time I was sight reading quartets at 7:30 I was a little fried, but it was fun.

I work tomorrow, my first Friday, so a short entry for today, but at least it got done. Goodnight.

Day 3

If you’re wondering why the last two posts don’t have proper titles, it’s because I’m doing this on my phone with the Square Space app and even though supposedly all I have to do to add a title is tap where it says “Enter a post title…” (it really says that, ellipses and all), when I try it, it doesn’t work.

[Please note: though I didn’t figure out how to do it on the mobile app at some point I logged into the desktop version and made some updates. Therefore the titles are looking spiffy now. Yay!]

There’s not much to say about today except I was alone in the office, which is good, because I had a complicated letter to write and it’s hard enough to do that with my own internal distractions, let alone someone else’s external ones.

That sounded weird.

Off the clock, I’ve been watching quite a bit of James May (“Top Gear,” James May goes to Japan [can’t remember the actual title] and “The Grand Tour”), and I think I have a bit of a crush on him. I watched the GT film where they’re dropped in the middle of nowhere and James and Richard build a car the three of them have to drive across Mongolia, and he was charming as hell.

I think someday I’d like to be driven somewhere by James May.

That’s also sounded weird, right.

Day 2

Well, look at me, doing a thing. This is day two. - Which you know because I went back in time and fixed the titles.

It’s hot, I worked from home, I had bacon and overcooked fried eggs for lunch (but I’ve finally allowed the pan to get hot enough to create the lacy edges; next time I’ll get the eggs out of the pan quicker to avoid hard cooked yolks), picked up Jules from camp, made a hair appointment, listened to the Police, and framed a watercolor my cousin gave me, which will soon hang in the recently remodeled bathroom.

Oh, and 7 years ago, my mother passed away.