in which i'm sure i should be doing something...

[wrennette]

tomorrow night i'm heading back to ri for a long weekend. i sort of can't wait. i'm so so so ready to not be in ny. i really need to get my head on straight, and hopefully a couple days with my parents taking care of me will help.

my new hire started this week. she's awesome, if slightly more inclined to bounce ideas off me than i anticipated. i understand the need to talk things through though, and am trying hard not to be short with her. i just want to get back to doing my actual job though, instead of spending so much time on the project she's been hired under. it's not my project, and i just don't want to deal with it, so i get grumpy.

i'm so excited that spring training is starting up soon, not going to lie. as much as i love my winter sports, baseball just says warmth and relaxation and so many other things i want so badly right now. can't wait to spend some quality time with nesn in the near future :D

also, i've been listening almost non-stop to rutter's requiem. it's beautiful and sad and just lovely. i heartily recommend it to one and all.

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[ecl1958.livejournal.com]

Baseball says, "spring is around the corner, take heart!" I have a dim memory of Rutter, not the Requiem, but of *some* choral music that I performed in a different lifetime. I just can't remember what.

Speaking of baseball and NESN and related topics, today I received in the mail a letter with a Fenway Park return address...'twas a reply from Papi (a form letter, of course) to an encouragement card I sent him sometime last season. Looks like it may have been hand signed, my poor old eyes couldn't tell. And as a token of appreciation, enclosed was his official team photo. The letter closed with "un gran abrazo." Put a Papi-sized grin on my face, and both items went directly into my baseball shrine. :)

Enjoy your long weekend -- may it be restful and restorative. ♥

[xhereonearthx.livejournal.com]

thanks - it has been a very nice long weekend so far ♥

my dad's best childhood friend was visiting for part of the time, so i got to see one of my 'uncles' - a bit awkward, since he's one of those people i find very difficult to read - i'm never sure if he's joking or not. but he kept dad in good humor, so that's pretty priceless right there.