Variations on a Theme
So, in my last post, I was lamenting the fact that August was already over, and now here it is, already November.
Faire season has come and gone, with the major high point being TOH’s and Silver’s job sharing. It was really nice to be able to spend time with my husband. I didn’t take a lot of pictures, but one of these days, I’ll put up the ones that I did take. And maybe last year’s. And maybe the 2009 cruise pictures, too.
Silver’s new garb turned out wonderfully, and eventually I’ll have pictures up. We’re already thinking that for next year, we need to create something outrageously ostentatious.
The winter blahs seem to be setting in early this year, though. All I want to do is sleep. And then sleep some more. And have a nap when I wake up.
Work is still quite insane. I finally have a list of candidates for my assistant position. But, the list presents new problems of its own. I need to pick and choose between candidates, set up interviews, check references, etc. But I have all of these other tasks to work on as well. There’s too much to do, and never enough time to get it all done.
The commute is still meh. Normally the trains run great, and it takes me about 3 hours round trip to get to work and back. Lately, though, the traffic on the roads between the house and the train station has been ridiculous. It has been taking me an average of 40 minutes to drive the 6.7 miles. To add insult to injury, Tuesday night’s train home broke down, and it took me 3 hours to get home. I spent about 5 hours in transit that day.
I want to get back to sewing, but motivation has been lacking. Klumpen says I ought to make a list of all the things I need/want to work on, so maybe I’ll tackle that sometime soon. Sven still needs to go in for servicing, and the laptop we were using to run the pattern making and embroidery software has kicked the bucket. My personal laptop has also died. Apparently, laptops do not like me right now.
Music-wise, there have been a couple concerts since I’ve posted. Back in August, we went to see Carbon Leaf and Great Big Sea at Wolf Trap. We had fantastic seats, in row 2 of the orchestra pit. Which can be a liability when the kids say something to make me laugh hysterically during one of the quieter songs. (Sorry, Bob.) Then last month, the kids and I went to see Guster at the 9:30 Club. It was a great show, as always. They played all of “Lost and Gone Forever”, in order, as well as a bunch of other stuff and 2 new songs. They did a few songs that they rarely play, had a guest string section, horn section and children’s choir. And, of course, Scooter with Cowbell.
I have been reading voraciously lately. In the past month or so, I’ve read Company of Liars, Elantris, Mistborn, The Well of Ascension, and Warbreaker. I’m currently working on The Hero of the Ages and after that will either read The Gathering Storm (which is a continuation of the Wheel of Time (WoT) series, written by the author of most of the other books I’ve read lately), or The Autobiography of Henry VIII, or maybe even go back and reread some of the later books in the WoT series before I start on the newest one.
So, that’s what’s new here.