When the going gets tough...

I posted this to another journal a while back (10/22/09 to be exact) and couldn't get it cross posted here until just now. So this is old news, but still worth archiving:

Back pain: About the end of August I started having a lot more back pain than normal. There was a bit of a panic briefly, then I started up with a new set of physical therapy sessions. I was officially discharged from those last Friday.

Stage managing: A little more than half-way through the run things are moving pretty smoothly. Everybody knows what to do and how not to fuck up. The script failed to grow on me, but such is life. It just means I get to enjoy making snarky comments over the headset. It is fun to do the pick-up rehearsals where the actors have permission to goof off significantly and mock the script themselves. It's a nice hour-long guided improv that also happens to get the lines back in the actors' heads.

Curriculum writing (and other zoo work): The kick-ass anatomy curriculum draft was submitted on Wednesday. I expressed at least a couple moments of educational brilliance. Boss Lady is currently in a mood though so I'm not sure how she's going to react to my pure genius. Just in-case I was worried I might have time to take a breath, I also had a meeting with another subdivision of the education department and have had my curriculum brilliance skills contracted with 3 (THREE!) major re-writes to teacher packets that will likely occupy most of my non-registration time for the next 10 months.

So the season of way too fucking much to do is coming neatly to a close. What does a girl like me do to celebrate?

Buy new undies of course!

I stumbled into a store having a sale on some very cute panties and spent some money there. Then, when I got home after rehearsal, I got a marketing email from figleaves.com (aka the devil to my pocketbook). They were having a sale on some things that have been sitting in my "shopping bag" for quite some time. Then like a good little impressionable consumer, I also found a couple other things that needed purchasing too.

Ha!

I made it to the gym again! Hooray! I'm a little surprised by how things have slipped away over the last 2 months... maybe surprised isn't exactly the right word... what's the word for being fully aware of potential outcomes but still solidly in denial until reality will no longer be refused?

Anyway, I got some good stretches in, did my PT before work and 45 minutes of cardio after work today. It feels good.