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Shedding the load
Apr. 21st, 2005 11:26 pmAfter spending most of the beginning of this week feeling like my head was going to explode from the tension of trying to deal with everything, I've actually managed to do some constructive things to lighten the load a bit.
First, the entire Not Ready for Bandai group has decided that it would be nice to take a year off from the Acen costume contest. At this point, we would have been reduced to frantic rehearsal _at_ Acen, of a sketch that was already much reduced from our original concept. I would much rather take the year off than go onstage with a half-assed sketch. And it's such a relief to think that I might actually be able to do something else at Acen this year besides the sketch and working. Normally, I take off a huge block of time Saturday afternoon and evening for contest prep and the contest itself, and therefore have to spend the rest of the weekend working long shifts to make up for the amount of time I took off on Saturday. This year, I might not have to work 12 hours on Friday or take every early morning shift! And I hear there are actually some interesting things that go on Saturday nights - it might be nice to check some of them out.
Second, I have decided that I'm leaving work at the end of April. I had been planning to reduce my hours in May, but I'm so exhausted that I think I would be a great deal happier if I just quit. And the fact that I only have another week left of work makes me so happy that it pretty much confirms that this is the right decision. I find upon examining the notion of quitting that I won't miss working one little bit.
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longstrider's parents have offered to pay for a professional to do some stuff in the house that we don't feel up to doing ourselves, like replacing the light in the kitchen and installing the storm door on our front door that won't fit without some sort of carpenterial intervention. I think I can actually almost see the end in sight of our home improvement madness.
So things are looking up a bit. And if I can just live through the next four weeks, life will actually be quite relaxing.
First, the entire Not Ready for Bandai group has decided that it would be nice to take a year off from the Acen costume contest. At this point, we would have been reduced to frantic rehearsal _at_ Acen, of a sketch that was already much reduced from our original concept. I would much rather take the year off than go onstage with a half-assed sketch. And it's such a relief to think that I might actually be able to do something else at Acen this year besides the sketch and working. Normally, I take off a huge block of time Saturday afternoon and evening for contest prep and the contest itself, and therefore have to spend the rest of the weekend working long shifts to make up for the amount of time I took off on Saturday. This year, I might not have to work 12 hours on Friday or take every early morning shift! And I hear there are actually some interesting things that go on Saturday nights - it might be nice to check some of them out.
Second, I have decided that I'm leaving work at the end of April. I had been planning to reduce my hours in May, but I'm so exhausted that I think I would be a great deal happier if I just quit. And the fact that I only have another week left of work makes me so happy that it pretty much confirms that this is the right decision. I find upon examining the notion of quitting that I won't miss working one little bit.
Meanwhile,
longstrider's parents have offered to pay for a professional to do some stuff in the house that we don't feel up to doing ourselves, like replacing the light in the kitchen and installing the storm door on our front door that won't fit without some sort of carpenterial intervention. I think I can actually almost see the end in sight of our home improvement madness.So things are looking up a bit. And if I can just live through the next four weeks, life will actually be quite relaxing.
