The good, the bad, and the late-night-pensive

Good: Getting the newsletter done.
Bad: Missing my dinner date because #@&!* Gmail would not send my *$&@^#(*&! attachment of the newsletter PDF, wasting an entire hour to ultimately no avail because the %@&* thing had to be sent by sneakernet anyway after all.

Good: Receiving a late-evening social call in place of the missed dinner date.
Bad: Wanting, always, more than I can have, ever.
Bad: And now it's after 2am and sleep is far from me. So far that I don't even know where it is.

Bad: And I have so much to do tomorrow.
Bad: And the day after that, and the day and the day and the day after that.
Stupid, but true: And the things that I should be looking forward to can't soothe me right now; they all feel hollow, dry as dust. Because right now I am here alone, and even sleep is far from me.

Good: At least (for now) my net connection is working.

Let's see, what else?
Good: Uh, remembered to pick up my T pass today.
Good: And got to Pearl before they closed.
Bad: They were sold out of every size of clip frame... except one obscure one (4" x 10").
Good: But I needed some of those too, actually. So I bought a couple, and framed my 4" x 10" things for the art show when I got home.
Good: jessruth is coming to visit this weekend!
Good: And tomorrow I'm having dinner with OtherJessica and Amy whom I haven't seen in a coon's age. So maybe I am looking forward to something, after all.

Yum.

Dinner tonight was at the Helmand. I had the seekh kebab, which was not precisely what I think I wanted, as halfway through I had to stop and think hard about whether it was in fact lamb or beef (it was lamb, but salty and grilled, there wasn't that much difference). It was still good, though. But the flatbread that they serve with three kinds of chutneyish things is fantastic. And I had the Turkish coffee afterwards, even though I probably shouldn't have since my sleep schedule is still a bit jetlagged. (Had a beer with Pup and Joelll when I got home, so maybe that will offset it.) And the place is just so lovely and smells so wonderful, and my hair still smells of wood smoke and spices now.

And it was great to see Jessica and Amy, and pick up right where we left off as if it had been only a week instead of months since we were last chatting away. Really great. I need to do this more often.