Looooong day...

So, today I pretend to have the life of an executive: arrive at 6:30 am, and stay until 6:30 or 7 pm.  Oh well.  there've been quite a few opportunities for me to roam outside (I had to walk to a nearby hospital a few times to take pictures of doctors).  But it was rather foolish to eat lunch at my desk.  but I've not yet had 30 minutes in a row to eat it, so I'm eating it slowly over several hours.

 

Ernie's been such a nice dog lately.  A bit spazzy, but nice nonetheless.  Tonight he gets to run around the yard for a long, long time.

 

I have been on a picture taking kick lately.  It really makes me happy to take pictures of people (I'm a huge fan of skies, but otherwise, not too interested in landscapes) and I love taking candid pictures of people doing things that they love, because their passion is so evident on film.  Ann, my boss/friend thinks I'm A Photographer.  Which makes me feel weird.

 

Okay I'm getting slammed at work, I have to go.

FW: It's Wednesday.

That's about all the reaction I can muster to today.
 
Yesterday there was a chamber music concert for the doctors at the hospital.  I got to listen.  It was nice.But I was unwell with migraine-y auras... at least I was without the migraine.
 
And I was looking forward to being paid while sipping vodka tonics and  mingling with young, single doctors.  Did I mention that a goodly number of the doctors there were old and/or married?  In fact, I believe they all were.  There was one really young internist (female) who was there.  Totally nice!  I'd like to be friends with her.  Oh well, who knows if I'll even see her again .  
So I went home early (I say early sarcastically, I got to work at 6:30 am, and got home at 7:15 pm, but at least I didn't have to stay for the cleanup until 8), snuggled the muttpuppy, and watched Things I Hate About You on Bravo.
 
I have decided I do NOT like that show.  It could have been that I didn't like the people, or that it makes me not want to ever live with a boy because the ones they've had on the show have been yucky... Mind you I don't have brothers, so I've NEVER had that sort of experience.  If it turns out that all boys are not yucky like that, let me know, and I'll happily believe you.   

Monday Morning Stretch - Gina Forsyth

It's a Monday morning and I'm stretching
My imagination to write this song
This is what I'd rather do
Why else would I stay at home
All morning long

And I don't wanna go to work
I never do
And all those other people in the news
Who are out of work
Can trade places with me
Cause when you found that you
Have something better to do
With your life
I guarantee
You'd feel the same way too

My friend and I we spent the weekend
Running from responsibilities
Just like kids we played with crayons
Drawing pictures of our families

I was supposed to be somewhere else
I didn't show
Oh there I go
And all I wanted was to go
So far away
Where no one knows my name
And no one will ever ask
Why I ran away
And where I'm going and how
And where I want to be
Five years or so from now

But just for once I'd like to do
What I feel is right
All because that's how I feel
And with some practice and some time
To follow my heart
Would be no big deal

Oh it's been too many years
Of chasing after a career
And in my bitter tears
I call on my soul and hear
This number has been disconnected
For years

It's a Monday morning and I'm stretching
My imagination to write this song
Oh maybe it's the stretch
That I've been needing my whole life long

And I don't wanna go to work
I never do
But I'll go anyway
Today tomorrow too
Although I know that I have
Better things to do
I'll use this morning
As a step to take me to

Another morning someday
When I will be whole
And I won't hesitate at the door
Of my own soul
And when people ask
Why don't you just grow up
I'll say I tried that
And I had more than enough

And when I'm calling on my soul
I'll hear my own voice say
Yeah, I'm home
Would ya like to come over and play

It's a Monday morning and I'm stretching
My imagination to write this song

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Saturday Accomplishments:

I caught up on sleep.

I chased off a migraine that I got from oversleeping by taking migraine medicine and sleeping it off.

I cleaned my living room and kitchen.

I paid most of my bills.

I am currently uploading more pix from the Copper Circus Arts show I went to a month ago, and am more than 2/3 done.  This has taken FOREVER because of big files, slow dial-up, and I'm still too afraid to try it at work.

I put gas in the car.

I brushed the dog, and helped him shed enough hair to make a second dog.  About cocker spaniel sized.

I played with a real cocker spaniel at my aunt's house.

That's all I did today.

I'll squeeze into heaven, and, Valentine, my bed is calling me....

I've got "Daysleeper" by REM in my head... one of my favorites of theirs.  Other songs I like are "Half A World Away" "Bad Day" "At My Most Beautiful" "You Are the Everything" "It's the End of the World..." "Perfect Circle" "Try Not to Breathe" "Hairshirt" "Fall on Me" and "Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite."  That's not all, but those are all that come to mind at this second...  "I am not the type of dog to leave you hanging for no good reason..."

 

That's from "Hairshirt."  Other hairshirty referencing songs I like are "What a Good Boy" by Barenaked Ladies... and that's the only other hairshirt song I can think of.  Song lines I like by BNL are "If you question what I would do to get over and be with you, lift you up over everything to light up my room."  Even though that's a dependent clause and no condition follows it.  The first time my old roommate Mina heard that song, (it references radio stations that conduct through their teeth, being able to light a bulb by holding it in their hands, etc... sounds WEIRD but it's a really pretty song), she said "What is going on?  Are these people made of metal?" and was terribly confused.  I really like "When I Fall" by BNL too.  I'm not going to do this mental drivel online anymore.

 

I should start workin'.

Sailing, takes me away to where I'm going...

I’ve been floating around this hospital, and I have no home here… How sad for me…

 

I feel like a pen.  Or some other piece of communal property…

 

Oh well, I suppose I’ll live.

As far as portents go...

So, I wasn’t really in the mood for an Americano this morning, but I got one anyway.

 

And the cream I put in it was rancid.

 

So I’ve got a Mtn. Dew instead.

 

I’ve got to plan a BIG party (black-tie dinner for 200), and it’s really fun. 

 

I’ve also got less fun things to do.

 

Fred, thanks for playing along.  You helped with one of the less fun things.

I may have the wrong audience, but I'll try anyway

If you were going to hear a doctor give a lecture to non-medically inclined people, in all seriousness, what would be your top three topics you’d like to hear about?