my adrenaline rush
status check - impatient
background ambiance - immer das scanner


the last four days have featured yours truly waiting for the other shoe to drop. work-wise, each day has managed to top the day before. i thought today would be a low-key day, but instead, i've got several stories i'm working on, all interesting, all great to write.


the past five and a half hours have flown by in a flurry of activity, yet now i sit at my desk, waiting for a return call so i can finish what i think will be the last major project for the day (she says, half-expecting to hear the scanner go beserk and send her on some new adventure now that she jinxed things). my adrenaline wave is, i fear, beginning to crest. i love having a crazy amount of work to do for almost all of the day and then resting at an unwanted standstill. such is life.


but it's been grand and i'll have plenty to do in the coming workdays, which pleases me immensely. not to mention that it's (already?) almost the weekend and saturday will find me driving to southern vermont, then massachusetts before heading to extreme southern vermont for easter sunday with the family types. i love the logic my immediate family possesses. "oh, easter plans? right. ok, you can come down here, then we'll leave to go to your grandmother's, where we'll meet up with tom. then we'll all head to your aunt's for easter sunday, then go back to grammy's. we can enjoy our long weekends and head back monday so you can get back to burlington for work tuesday." so we're heading from vermont to vermont, by way of massachusetts. of course that makes sense. right?


i'm rambling again. it has been the pattern today, as anytime i have time to write or talk, everything comes out in these huge long rushes of words. i had email waiting for me this afternoon from the magical land of san diego and, when i replied, i wrote this long rambling graf about how crazy the day has been. then i apologized for said ramble. i should have been sensible and deleted it before sending, but that would have made the writing of it a waste, so instead i just add a disclaimer. real smart, vic. sorry, pete.


but it's just the way things go. this week has (thus far) managed to top the week previous, which i didn't think would really be possible. yet here i am, working hard and (i think) doing well professionally. feeling motivated physically, thanks to the last two days of the gym and the calm that comes from exercising (calm being a relative term, since i rocked out today to "justified"). snow's gone. spring approaches - again. good times coming up, good friends coming up. i'm going to dc in june and it's going to be crazy (i've been assured). progress is being made in several goals and i feel focused and enthused. it finally feels like everything is lining up as it is supposed to.


or, it will as soon as i get the callback for this story. ;)