I just got rickroll'd by LJ.

Also it turns out my fiance may be [high functioning] autistic.

Huh.

Wugh.

So most of the last couple of days has been spent taking care of sick Cj, working substitute retail shifts, and preparing for the enormous booksigning events happening at the store. Today was no different, but for some reason it felt like it really sucked. I dunno why, I just felt incompetent and grumpy. Couple that with problems at the post office and a worry about getting everything done, and I feel kinda crappy.

Everybody post silly pictures and cheer me up, plz.

Things go on as they have for the last few months.

I sew, I intern, I work on applications, I clean the house. Sometimes (rarely) I work.

I'm working this weekend. Retail tomorrow, then an event on sunday (with an adoptable dog fair, which I'm looking forward to).

Cj's mom came up and visited recently which was lovely - we went to the Winchester Mystery House (one of my favorite places) and took a ton of pictures, which I'll post here soon.

I guess I'm not feeling much like writing right now, but there it is.

Uuuuuuggh. I got a call last night that someone called in sick and since they were expecting a rush for a couple of big name authors they couldn't be short staffed. When did they need me? 8am, of course. Ah well.

So I sat in traffic this morning for 45 minutes and was 20 minutes late (damn you, traffic, damn you), which didn't matter too much since one of the managers was driving the other way and saw how bad the traffic was, plus I called ahead, plus I stayed later than usual. I'm starting to get a little more comfortable ith the computer system, which makes things go a whole lot quicker. Also I saw the person that directed a bunch of my elementary/middle school plays, so it was fun to tell her about the stuff I've been doing lately. A little bit of validation.

Frisbee was good and apparently I played well, despite feeling pretty much like crap the entire time. I think I might have tweaked a back muscle, though. Also I had the beginnings of a really monster headache. When I got home (after a fun evening at Chevy's with Joe, Cj and Dave), I ran the hottest bath I could stand, lit a bunch of candles, and kind of curled up into the fetal position in the dark while listening to Joni Mitchell.

Yeah. It was pretty pathetic.

Unfortunately the headache didn't get any better, so I crawled into bed around 10 and watched some of "Moonstruck" until Cj came to bed.

Aside from that, I've been making some real progress on my quilt. After I finally got the two year old to go to sleep on Friday, I sat for a good hour and a half piecing some things together. I learned how to make triangles the other day, and I'm also working on a border that's like a row of mini-quilts within the larger quilt. I'll post pictures when I get it to a manageable size.

So Kacey came and went, and we did fun things like going to a winery, playing miniature golf, and seeing Flogging Molly (which rocked). I might go down and visit her in a while to get a look at CalArts and see the show she's working on, but that's a ways off yet.

I had a meeting today with Anais Mitchell to chat about theater (specifically the musical kind). I saw her open for Ani Difranco a little ways back and she had mentioned she's working on a folk opera called "Hadestown". I really liked the song she played so I contacted her manager to see if she was looking for somebody to write the book. She said she had already gotten to the point that it'd be odd to have someone new come in, but that we should get together anyway and see what's what.It was a nice meeting - it's always fun to talk about theater with people - and even though there's nothing immediate coming out of it you never know what'll happen in the future.

She's great, by the way. You should buy her album.

I really need to start working on MFA apps, though. Time keeps ticking by.

Awkward, awkward, awkward. I am an awkward turtle.

Sigh. I didn't do anything in particular, I just felt strange all day long.

Imogen (other directing intern) bought a tanning package so that when she goes back to England people won't make fun of her for not getting tan in California, and I gave her a ride down there today during one of our breaks so she let me have one of her 'stars' to use a bed. So I was in my first tanning bed ever today for 8 minutes and afterwards I felt AMAZING. I dunno, maybe I just needed some UV rays, or to sweat something out. Hm.

When I came home Cj said I smelled different. Like victory? [Quagmire-esque OH!]

I'm tired.

Oh, and my favorite 'Fight Club' quote: "WHOA! WHOA! You are shooting a gun, at your imaginary friend, near 400 GALLONS OF NITRO GLYCERINE!!!

<--- This is my mysterious icon.

I feel so french. I had cheese and bread for lunch, and now I'm sitting after a long artsy day with a glass of wine.

You know, I'm not doing much in rehearsal, but for some reason it's extremely draining to sit in one place for 8 hours. Eh.