WYFP is our community's Saturday evening gathering to talk about our problems, empathize with one another, and share advice, pootie pictures, favorite adult beverages, and anything else that we think might help. Everyone and all sorts of troubles are welcome. May we find peace and healing here. Won't you please share the joy of WYFP by recommending?
My main FP tonight is trying to host this diary and pack at the same time. My limousine service is picking me up at an ungodly hour tomorrow morning to whisk me off to the airport, where I will wing my way westward to Portland for an NSF grants conference for a few days. Seems like every business trip I've made thus far this year, I've forgotten to pack something. I'm wondering what that thing will be this time--though I'm hoping that I might get lucky.
My other FPs are more substantive, and mainly involve the sad fact that there are still only 24 hours in the day and seven days in the week--and that's not enough time for me to get everything that needs to get done, done. Which is why I spent most of today doing laundry so I'd have something clean to wear in Portland. I was going to take care of that last weekend, but then a dear friend yelled for help and that killed laundry time but good. Not that I begrudge her the time--far from it. But I still have to get at least a few things accomplished, and the list of things that need doing just gets longer. Doesn't help that I'm going to be away from home for the next four days, either.
I knew it was going to be this way when I signed up for this graduate school thing, and most of the time I'm glad that I did. But there are times, and this month is one of them, when I think it would be so very nice to chuck it all and enjoy being able to come home at a reasonable hour in the evening with nothing more to do than have dinner, putter around the house, and watch whatever I feel like on telly or read a good book that nobody has told me I must read.
But enough of my problems. What's on all y'all's mind tonight? I'll close with the usual first comment:
WYFP? is hosted by a different Kossack each week. Repeat posting is not only allowed, it's encouraged, though we do try to spread things out so that nobody has to carry too much of the load. The current schedule as of today looks like this:
October 27 NinthElegy
November 3 Noor B
November 10 edwardssl
November 17 deepfish
November 24 Ellicatt
December 1 blue jersey mom
December 8 Sassy
December 15 desordre remplir
December 22 paxpdx
December 29 musing85
January 5 bwren
January 12 One bite at a time
January 19 CJB
January 26 sobermom
Want to host your own edition of WYFP? It's simple. Just drop a comment (or reply to one of mine), or send an e-mail to me at the address in my profile. We're in pretty good shape through the end of January, but it's not too early to think about Valentine's Day, considering I saw my first Christmas commercials yesterday and today, and it isn't even November yet--which I guess is another fucking problem of mine. I love Christmas, and I want to make the season last as long as possible--but I don't put up my decorations until after Thanksgiving, and I don't think anyone else should, either.