blackish: when I went with Taylor to the Inaug, I suppressed my terror that the ugliest part of America would surface, and it'd be me and this teen baby, a precious life I was taking responsibility for. But it was there and a small part of why I was grateful to Sparky for letting us launch from her house.

I was also concerned about the crush, and that did become reality, but people were their best. Man, can't believe 7 years.

Oh, dag, storm and winds have passed but the power just went out.

Psychological dependence is a bitch, of course.I don't understand vaping - I only know about it in a very abstract way and it just sounds so weird. But then smoking sounds pretty weird, too.

Little do they know that most of our deployments involve someone saying in the chatroom "deploying now" and then a couple of minutes later, "done".

See, that sounds badass.

Oh yeah, this is just nicotine.

Yeah, I figured

Hope the power comes back soon, lisah

There seems to already be a power company truck out back. Maybe they caused it, though? Who knows. An going 5o try to go to sleep. Hoping I turned light off!

good night!

Things are calming down slightly at work, which means I now have to think about things like strategy, visibility, and figuring out how to get myself to the 'next level.' My brain hurts.

But at least I'm going to have a long weekend with fangirls.

Give yourself some down time too.

Yeah, this is good advice. And I definitely need to do better on this score. My prof ditched out on tonight's meet & greet. Which is fine, and I talked to his buddy, and it sounds like he just does kinda do this. Which means that what happened with him at the last event where I was with him, was not a fluke. He just is kinda, well, flaky. But I am like that too, so I'm not holding it against him.

I just need to remember for the social anxiety side of things, that he's not going to be there always, and I need to be able to be pretty independent. He's teaching tomorrow morning, and then we're supposed to meet up for lunch, so we'll see if that happens, but there's lots available if I need to walk somewhere. In fact, I think what I will do is in the morning, I'll walk to the grocery and fill up my room fridge, just in case, and then I'll have snacks and whatnot for the whole weekend, in the event I need to flee back here and eat. I'll have a roommate (the same one as the last event) but thankfully a) she is awesome and pretty mellow and b) she won't get here until Friday afternoon, so I will have some solo time when I most need it, i.e., before everything gets rolling so crazy.

Ok! Thanks for being my talky meat recipients. This trip is just likely to be a little rougher than normal, because the SO is also on tour right now. So that's good in that I'm not a rock wife sitting at home. But it's bad in that it's almost impossible to communicate, because he's two hours ahead of me, and has his show schedule that can't move, and I have my con schedule that can't move. But it should be fine. We'll figure it out.

Anyway, today was great. My prof and buddy spent the two hours drive breaking down my songs that I'm going to pitch later. We were so involved with it that we drove a half an hour past the exit we were supposed to take. Ha! But now it means I need to spend the morning reworking those songs. But I have my road rig with me, instead of my normal rig, so it'll take some doing. But worth the effort, I think.

Sounds really intense, Liese, but also really rewarding.

Timelies all!

The little guy's got a bit of a fever, so I'm staying home with him today.