Tuesday, Sept 4th, 2012

I don’t think I’ve ever slept as much as I have over the last three days, Labor Day weekend. It was great and felt badly needed. I also really pigged out, which was probably also badly needed. I still take advantage of free food whenever I can. If it’s good and reasonably clean, I’ll eat to capacity.

Eager to get back into training.

I need to work on my dissertation and I’m finding it hard to get into it. I have other things going on that are more interesting to me now. I was told this would happen and it’s interesting that everyone who said it would is right. At this time last year I felt very locked on. I need to make serious progress on that over the next couple of months or I’m screwed.

After sleeping long hours for three straight mornings it was hard to get up on time today. My eyes are puffy and heavy and it’s only been an hour since I left my place. I haven’t had coffee yet and I hope that helps. This will be a fast week with one significant document to work on. Exactly one week from today I will run a large meeting uptown to show and describe progress on the complex systems simulation. I’m working on a document to send around ahead of time and hope to have that reviewed by my project team the day after tomorrow. That’ll be in my face until then.

A friend asked me to see Phantom of the Opera this Friday. I didn’t particularly want to go but the tickets were free (or nearly) so I thought I may as well just check it out. It’ll be my second Broadway show. In about 2000, I was dragged to Miss Saigon by my second girlfriend after she moved to New York City. That was before China. I remember tickets were over $100 and at the time I was living off saltines, ramen and tuna cans because I was trying to pay off my undergrad debt as fast as possible. I wonder if I’ll like this one more. I remember when Miss Saigon was over I thought, fuck, that’s it? That was over two weeks of food gone in three boring hours. Yeah, yeah I know… “But they used a full-sized helicopter as a stage prop!” When you’ve jumped out of them before, it really doesn’t mean much.

No training today for lack of time but tomorrow it’s on. I have separation anxiety from the heavy bag.