the thing about Freedy Johnston is that it's such a memorable name. it's *almost* some boring name like Freddy Johnson, but it's not. Freedy Johnston. who turned out to be exactly the person i thought he probably was, and he was really very good. and i really really do like the song "Bad Reputation." it's just truly great. the scary thing is that it really was nearly seven years ago that i heard that song. man. i'm getting old! well, okay, perhaps not exactly. but still.
i am more and more convinced that really, my friends are lame. only one person out of the 10 i emailed about this concert came with me, and only 2 additional people even responded at all. i mean, it was only a day and a half of notice, but still. ah well. their loss. mostly.
the project at work is starting to go totally insane. apparently i'll be writing 700 words about harnessing fresh water over the weekend for Unit 4's environment feature. because we were theoretically supposed to have manuscript done by friday. and i learned about this today, that is, thursday. and the designers are nuts and i'm so busy trying to get the lab manuscript done and out to all the right people [along with A. and Y., of course. together we are JAY. i think that's cute] that i haven't even gotten to open the huge boxes of materials that came for me yesterday. because we really fucking have got to try the labs. like, yesterday. a month ago. before we *wrote* the damn things. but they needed the manuscript first, because this project is so squished for time and we're doing things rather ass-backward. so. next week is devoted to testing. damnit. assuming that in those huge boxes are essentials like beakers. they had better be beakers. and i'm getting snippity and perverse and going sort of dizzy-feeling. i think i am going to be very glad when the weekend comes. and this was a short week because monday was memorial day! but a very crammed week.
i think "but still" is the phrase of the day. i wonder why.
at least i had a good evening. i sure hope y'all did, too.