The last couple of days have been full. I had an extremely uncomfortable experience yesterday afternoon involving conducting a workshop online to a small group of 7 people, and during which the technology mostly failed and left me high and dry. Given that I had explained I would not be able to work on any of the technology stuff in preparation and that someone would need to do that in order for me to run the workshop, I was very upset with a couple of staff who seemed to not have been prepared to support me. Given that one of them is here only to support that kind of service, I found the whole thing a demonstration of foolishness. I yelled a little bit afterwards and I’m not sure what the fallout should be. But the point is the whole thing sucked, and I’m the one in the video. Fuck them.

Last night I left straight from work to check out an instrumental metal band called Russian Circles. They’re excellent, a three piece from Chicago. I’d heard much of there stuff previously, but I must say that live it was extremely good. Their tones were killer and I stayed for the whole thing. On the way home my trains were all delayed and it took forever. I complained to the Serb who met me at the 137th stop and came over because she’s leaving for the weekend. I was really tired but we still went nuts until about 3a and again this morning. She left before me and I brought her suitcase in, secretly.

I have a chapter draft due by the afternoon and I’m nowhere near ready. I’ll be doing that all morning, after I get a coffee first.

I need to eat and train today as it’s been nearly a week since I’ve had time to get in there. I would love a relaxing evening, train for an hour, eat good stuff and sleep, but nope. The tall Chinese girl is coming over around 7 and then she, my friend and I are going to watch the band OM play at Music Hall of Williamsburg. You might remember the last Om show I went to was at the Met where they played at the Temple of Dendur. It was awesome but their bass sound was fucked up, so tonight I should be able to hear them as they’re supposed to sound.

Time for coffee.