My Dream Vacation

A week on a pretty beach (not ugly Galveston), a bathing suit, a cold thermos of coconut rum and coke, and about 25 books. That would cut my "To Read" list on Goodreads.com in half!

But alas, this dream vacation is not to be for awhile. I am in fact taking 2 Whole Days off next week, Thursday-Friday, in honor of my birthday which is awesome but as usual, I am already heavily scheduled during them with Job #2, patrol, and documentary trailer preparation. Dammit, how do these things happen?!? I wish I had 2-3 days to just sit around my house and lounge and read and watch documentaries and drink coconut rum with Coke and smoke a vanilla cigar and NOT HAVE TO BE ANYWHERE. I know, the power to make that happen is totally within my realm but I just can't seem to make it happen. Perhaps I will shoot for June to be the month where this might be a reality.

Yesterday was crazy. There's a scene in the Jim Jarmusch movie Night On Earth where Gena Rowlands plays this Hollywood executive being driven around in a cab by Winona Ryder and Gena Rowlands' cell phone is constantly ringing off the hook b/c she's obviously a very important and busy executive. At the end of the scene she has had a revelation after getting to know Winona Ryder's very laid-back, easy-going character and she is now so fed up with the cell phone she just throws it in her briefcase and tells it to shut up, which is totally nuts for her to be doing.

My cell phone was doing that yesterday, constantly ringing the whole day from morning to late last night and there were so many voicemails being left I was actually starting to feel extremely popular and loved!!! But I was so freakin' scheduled I couldn't even get a chance to talk to the 62 people that were trying to get a hold of me. First I had Job #1 all day, though I left early at 4 so I could work at Job #2 from 4:30-6:30. Then I went to see the documentary "La Onda Chicana" (premiering this fall on PBS!) at 7 in the East End, with Q&A following. Then I had to be at home at 9:30 so J. could bring by this chest of drawers that I was going to put in the dining room and Mudflap met me at home so he could help us unload it. Then S is all like, you gonna watch the last episode of 24 so I can take back this DVD and I was like, sure! And naturally I fell asleep during it.

Tomorrow: working from home, thank God. Picking up the baby in the middle of the workday, though.