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Date: 11 October 2006 08:38:50
So been a long week already, Big Book Draw this Saturday and I'm sure I've bored everyone about that enough already (or at least for today)....
In order to get there my weeks been micromanaged until it squeaks. Monday was painting panels x 12 for the day and getting materials in and passing on the last of the leaflets then working at the arts centre (clocking up an either impressive or stupid 17 hour day and then today, Tuesday at the time of typing, has been a similar day (materials, planning out teaching session, teaching at college, walk home, in the house for five minutes, out for the next bus, teaching at arts centre until half 9, set down until half ten, almost missing last bus on the way and then home at half 11 where I should do some emails and planning but really won't be able to).
Tomorrow is painting panels, a big book draw meeting, daughter school run x 2, possibly a meeting in the evening until ten (althoughb possibly not, as wife has reminded me that the meetings that I have previously been to in the series have wound me up a wall and three quarters of the way across the ceiling... I do remember walking out of the last one when it finished saying that I would never go to one again in a fit of complete grumpiness and this one isn't even in an easy to get to venue). Thurs is teaching all day at college (anime and then beginner photoshop part 3), teaching at arts centre all evening (manga drawing), another 17 - 18 hour day then, Friday is final set up for book draw then youth group in the evening.
I could be more rested.
Then Saturday is 10 - 4 Big Book Draw (catchy huh?) then set down and home in time to take the youth group on a lantern festival, finding time to plan out Sundays teaching for the following morning and then directly following that there's a Manga day as part of the book festival that I want to go to to help gauge my teaching and to see if there's anything I'm missing when I do Manga art days.
So, day two of the week from lack of Sleepsville and what's the abiding memory of 34 hours work split by 6 hours sleep? The fact that one of the youth group peed all over the gents toilet. All told it's probably not the worst thing that could happen at sea (possibly best to stop that chain of thought before faces get flushed etc etc) but indesdcribably demoralising anyhow. That and the lights and a few plugs, including one to a newish expensive piece of kit were left on and only found at the final check, and I was slowly walking back to the bus stop grumbling while I should have been looking at my watch. Turned round a corner, thought I'd look behind me and saw the bus pulling around a corner before the point of no chance for me to get it. One brief jog later (not as panicky as some of the bus runs I've done in the past) and there you go, at least I didn't have to wait in the cold too long I guess.
Plumb, a singer-songwriter that I'm very fond of (and hope one day that she'll comment on book 2 as it's within her sphere of interest/commentary and was unlucky to have sent it to her during a busy patch when the book first came out) was the first voice that came over the MP3 player when I switched it on. It was the song 'Sleep' that played out. Which is either good advice or complete irony, haven't decided which.
All told: completely dog tired. Saturday should, people attending, be wonderful though... Hope so. More news as it happens (if it gets a chance around the schedule).
Currently listening to: Plumb: Chaotic Resolve. Currently playing: Loco Roco: PSP.