I'm working on merry and bright over here. Mostly I'm just working. Thanks to a dissertation-writing friend, I'm finally in a writing groove. See, we commit to each other what hours we will work each day. For some strange reason I feel like I must follow through. And I do. Currently, I'm aiming for four hours a day. That doesn't seem like a lot, but you'd be surprised just how difficult it is to carve four sit-at-your-desk hours out of this holiday season. It doesn't help that my attention span is approximately 8 minutes. Nope. Not helpful.
Tis the season for holiday concerts. I could tell you about the near-debacle last night at the 5th grade holiday musical program. When we arrived at 5:50 (for a 7 PM concert) the chairs were not yet set up. This was problematic for a number of reasons. Parents at this school consistently arrive early for good seats. This meant that when the custodians did finally roll out the stacks of chairs there was mass chaos. Imagine Black Friday times a gazillion. Ugly words were said and people showed sides of themselves best left...well..nowhere. You get the idea. We did get seats. I nearly hyperventilated like twelve times purely on account of the crush of humanity.
Tonight orchestra. Next week: choir, choir, piano.
P.S. Last year Uverse, our cable provider, stopped carrying the Hallmark channel. This means no uber-lame, yet surprisingly addictive Hallmark Christmas movies. I'm really missing them.
Whoa!!! Lame, lame, lame is right. But, yes each evening Chuck scrolls down the recorded menu of Hallmark selections and encourages me to choose one to watch for the evening. It takes two or three run throughs before I am able to select one that is the lesser of the evils. Have you noticed that the entire two hours is wound up in the last 3 or 4 minutes. Mr. Levinson has obviously found a formula that works and keeps rolling out these smaltzy films for every season of the year.
Posted by: rebecca ellis | December 06, 2011 at 09:46 PM