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?
Per the schedule, this was supposed to be PerfectStormer's session. But he e-mailed me to say that something had come up and he couldn't make it tonight. So here I am again, hosting our weekly bitch-and-help-each-other-out session.
There seems to be a little bit of Angst on the site about something involving Obama and the FISA bill. But please leave that out of this diary. There are plenty of other places for venting those frustrations (or for saying things like "Nyah-nyah-nyah-nyah-nyah-nyah, I told you so!).
Not my FP this week is the fact that I'm going on vacation on Thursday. No, my FP this week is going to be living through Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday before Thursday gets here. I spent the last two days in Chicago at a National Institutes of Health regional seminar--which was very good, and well worth the time and effort involved--but which also took me out of the office at a time when I've been busier than the proverbial one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest. I live in horror of going in to work on Monday and finding out what's been dropped on my desk and what has materialized in my absence--that I'm then going to have to try to turn around in the three days I'm working this week, on top of the three large proposals with submission deadlines this week that I already know about.
On top of that, I've got to clean house, do laundry, get organized, and get packed for my trip. Unfortunately, this isn't the kind of trip where I can just throw a couple pair of shorts, a few T-shirts, underwear, and toiletries in a bag and then go. I've got to pack hiking gear, GPS unit, camera and accessories, theater tickets, sunscreen, first aid kit--and clothing suitable for two climates, since half our trip is going to be in arid desert areas (Las Vegas and southwestern Utah) and half is going to be in the mountains (northward along I-15 to Yellowstone and back).
I'm totally looking forward to the trip, though it's probably going to cost us both rather a bit more than we anticipated when we set this up months ago. It's just the intervening stuff that's dragging me down tonight. So I'm going to sit here in my living room while I finish off the last of the laundry, watch something on DVD or TiVo, and hang out with your good selves.
So, what's on all y'all's mind tonight?