The rock I've been under

[chanaleh]

I have, it seems, largely been living on coffee and air for most of the past week.

For those of you playing along at home, it went like this:

Thursday night: started in earnest on Melanie's ketubah

Friday afternoon: finished Retro Hugo/GoH programme

Saturday night: finished Melanie's ketubah

Sunday: led shul group daytrip to Rockport; High Holiday rehearsal.

Monday: 20s&30s planning meeting (behold! our fall schedule!); fix small error on Melanie's ketubah.

Tuesday: finished Hugo* and First Night programmes; laid out shul newsletter.

Today: approved proofs on shul brochure that has to be delivered Friday; send real live final press versions of all three N4 pubs, and officially put off the remaining one until next week (assuming I get any content to lay out).

*You know what this means, right? Right? Neil Gaiman will see something I designed, that's what.

Also today, have spent hours on end positioning picture boxes and captions in Quark for work work. Then freaked myself out by accidentally "sleeping" my Mac into oblivion (shift-command-0, from which there appears to be no earthly recourse but to reboot). Fortunately, it turned out I had saved within a couple of keystrokes previously. A well-cultivated reflex, good to have.

Late dinner date tonight with Tiger Boy at Rialto as part of Restaurant Week. I've more been anticipating the company, but I'm starting to get excited about the dinner as well. :-)

Tomorrow: Mom arrives from California for weekend visit! Must test air mattress for leaks.

Friday: daytime, probably hang around Boston (Duck Tour?); evening, drag her to shul, then dinner at (perhaps) Mary Chung's.

Saturday: daytime, lunch with Erick, possible North Shore tourism; evening, take her to play Scrabble at Diesel with marfta & Co.

Sunday: brunch? and 3:45pm return flight.