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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Time for coffee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 … Continue reading