feels like gravity ain’t got no hold on me

It’s been a good week. Sure, the Packers ticket thing may not have happened. It sucks, but I’ll get to Lambeau for a game eventually & hopefully get to visit my Wisconsin fam again soon. The Midwest pulled through in all ways aside from the semi-catastrophic lack of Packers tickets, so enough good stuff went down to outweigh the sad for sure. And call me old or lame if you will, but it was kinda nice to end the week with a relaxing Friday night in, watching Ocean’s Eleven after a mini-Joss Stone karaoke session in my apt (where no one else has to hear haha). Forgot how much I love her music. She was pretty much my life soundtrack during my Manhattan commute from Roosevelt Island to Tiffany’s back in the day. Woah. That was 2006. Way back. Flashbacks.

As for classes, I’m ready for the semester to be over. Love my program and all, but I’m already ready to get back to a 9-5 job again. Just realized as I wrote that that I haven’t really worked a 9-5 job for about 2 years… HarperCollins was more like a 9-9 job and in my semi-retirement, I rarely worked more than one 5 hour day a week. Hmm… Either way, I’m trying not to rush the whole grad school experience, but I’m ready for real life ish. I’ll get a blip of it during my (hopeful UW-Madison athletics) internship this summer to some extent and hope my plan for that continues to go well as well as it has this week.

For those in Raleigh keeping up with the craziness, I’m excited to be back for about a week around Christmas (tentatively the 22^nd-30^th) to visit everyone! Lunches & Bad Lights Night are already being booked, but I’m hoping to go to the Canes games on the 23^rd, 26^th &/or 29^th with all who would like to join, and a Rudino’s trip to visit my favorite bartender… and by visit I mean give him enough shit to make up for the season of football & college bball he’ll be missing. If anyone wants to play for any of that (or anything else… swanky bowling, perhaps?), shoot me an email or something and let me know. I have such a short time to cram in so much, and of course, spend some time with the madre, too.

In general, I’m glad the calm from the sunrise beach trip has kept going & ready for the fun stuff coming up in the next month ish. Life is so much better when things are semi-effortlessly going well :)