Gah! No time!

(ergo, what better use of 10 minutes than to post to LJ?? It seems like the farther behind one gets in posting, the less it feels OK to just throw random asides up by way of entries... maybe I'll try to do more of that instead of waiting to compose paragraphs-long updates. But, for now, here I am.)

These days I am busy with a dozen or so major projects, some paid, some volunteer. (The wintertime urge to sleep 10 hours a night is Not Helping; how can I get more hours in my day except by cutting them from the night??) For what feels like weeks, I've been skimming LJ but only rarely able to take time to make comments... or, for that matter, to click on cut-tags. Please know that I have thought of you and responded with laughter, hugs, tears, indignation, or moral support, as appropriate.

Last Thursday's Major Snowstorm meant it took me 3 hours to drive back from Concord to Cambridge -- whereupon we, fools that we are, went to tour the Hotel Marlowe for wedding purposes. (It was gorgeous, but that's a story for another time.) This Sunday's Major Snow Ice Freezing Rain Storm was much better in that I did not have to leave the house At All (even Menschen rehearsal was cancelled), which meant I could stay inside cozily working and cooking (an excellent fish chowder) while Tiger Boy voluntarily went outside to dig out my car like the best husband-to-be ever. :-D

Chanukah, which was nice enough, slipped by all too quickly, and now there's nothing left but the plunge toward 12/25. (Have to finish shopping and shipping for family presents, eek! jessruth and mbarr will each be coming up from NYC, yay! Have to typeset a 500-page book before then, eek! Going to Virginia to the TigerParents Dec 27-31, yay! Returning for First Night, yay!)

And now, back to everything else I was doing. :-}