i woke up about a half hour ago and decided that instead of lying in bed, thoughts-a-racin’, i’d get up and get things done.
first, i decided to make a tape of my show, because linda keeps asking to see it. i started searching for the right kind of cord for plugging the camera to the vcr. i looked at the jack on the camera, and i figured out what the cord must look like.
i have managed to collect a nice little array of cords. but i couldn’t find one that i thought might work. so then i even found the camera manual and the picture of the cord, and it was the one i’d thought.
but where is it? i started looking behind things and decided that’s a little too scary for the middle of the night. way way way too many things behind things.
so i finally gave up, but i know that cord must be somewhere, and eventually it will make itself known to me.
and also, i did at least attempt something productive, which distracted me from the thoughts in my head that i knew were going to make it impossible to get back to sleep.
i checked my e-mail and got a nice long one from J. (jeb), and spent some time writing back to him.
and now i’m starving. because i’ve started to panic a little about wearing underwear on stage, and have begun not eating everything in the world.
but a nice bit of bread with some really good cheese and maybe a good glass of red wine sure would be good right now.
fortunately i have none of those things around here. not in my bedroom anyway, and it’s definitely too far to get out of bed and scrounge around for food in the kitchen at this hour.
now that i’ve made some progress on things, perhaps some more sleeping will be in order.
you never know.
the other thing i thought about doing tonight was figuring out my taxes. at least starting this process, because i have to guess about how much i’ll owe because i’m self-employed. figuring out my own taxes, even though they’re not THAT complicated, is sort of gratifying because i’m so rotten at anything even remotely math-related. but it’s sort of challenging trying to figure out all the complicated self-employment stuff, and now that i’ve been doing it a few years i’ve gotten pretty good at it.
so maybe that can be my project tomorrow night.
i’m still thinking, though, about some kind of money-making thing for the middle of the night. how about a job stuffing envelopes, the kind they advertise in the paper where you can make thousands of dollars a month in your own home? hmm, maybe i’ll look into that.
but not right now. lights out.
ok then,
productive grace.