Without a Yard

A gray day, perfect for geeking out guilt-free. I’m triple (quadruple if you count that too-good-to-be-true Bruce Peninsula w/ the Acorn & Laura Barrett show that I will probably not have any chance of making in time..aie?!) booked for tonight, which makes last night’s foul ups a bit of a relief (& the Sondre Lerche concert’s cancellation - hopefully postponed! - a blessing in disguise, too)…

Got back to what now looks like an Ikea refugee camp at a reasonable hour, crashed, caught up with far-away-friends & had some sweatpants q.t. Packing is 98% done, feeling completely wiped after an action-packed week of events, shows & daytime appts, so there’s loads of maintenance work on the errands/online front…I’ve been unabashedly pillaging rcrdlbl tracks whenever I get a moment since it launched last week - can’t stop listening to the jose gonzales’ guest appearance on the junip track ‘chickens.’ Going through a mellower listening phase lately (including the aforementioned Sarah Burton’s tracks, who knew she’d be backed by a bunch of the Bebop Cowboys? what a pleasant surprise!), maybe to counterbalance the madness…gathered up all the covers/fav tracks to .zip’off to friends, in the hopes that it will - by osmosis - synthesize all the information for the ‘07 Waub list before year’s end…Thinking that I could stay on top of the hype machine was another massive joke, will be unsubscribing from that bad boy before day’s end to alleviate unread-guilt.

So the move has pretty much taken over my life (& my subconscious, been having loads of weird dreams about moving into spaces that are hybrid mashups of places I saw & didn’t like…bizarro scenes of opening up closet/cupboard doors & peeking to neighbour’s apartments…too many late nights & an archive of bjork videos floating around the id, I guess) - will be off work Monday/Tuesday, but Monday’s ‘actionable items’ keep getting pushed further & further back into the day - Could’ve sworn I was using a ‘best teams approach’ to ‘manage my expectations,’ but haven’t been able to ‘touch base’ with ‘key stakeholders’ to secure a concrete plan ‘moving forward.’ There - that buzzword bouillabaisse makes up for missing two days work.

On that snarky note…I am looking forward to end of day Tuesday, being totally unpacked & cooking again - appreciate the first coupla guinea pigs volunteering to pop over before I really get my bearings in the new space, I promise no wild forays into new recipe land until I’ve mastered the new digs…

peace
meegs