Holy Poo! (As Erica would say)
Oh my goodness.. I have so much to report on.
First and foremost, today I turned in my last paper, EVER!!! Well, I shouldn't say that, cuz I still have my "thesis" to finish up, but that's in it's 3rd draft, so it doesn't truly count. Hot damn. I was driving home from class tonight thinking, "oh my gosh, what am I going to do with myself all week? I have nothing to work on, NOTHING!!!" It's so great. I can come home, chill, finish up sewing some skirts, pack, and just live. Wow. But, I must admit, it is also kind of sad, as it means I'll be leaving Clarksville soon. =( I've recently realized how hard it is going to be to leave. I've let myself become really attached to people here. Case in point- Carmen called me sometime Saturday afternoon, to give me directions to someone's house, they were having a margarita night. Well, I never called her back, and then ended up sleeping thru the party, and her calling at about 11:30. Then, she called again at about 12:45, wanting to know if I was ok.. she'd called and left several messages that I didn't hear because my power went out and lost everything, and that I didn't know cuz my new cell phone doesn't beep at me when I miss calls. She had come over to my apt to check and make sure I was ok, but I slept through it (this was about midnight, I think) All because I was a zombie thanks to SMOKIE!!
And now, onto my exciting 2 days. First, Thursday was Pig Pickin' Spring Fest, which kind of bombed because it was rainy on and off. But, Thursday's are normally my day off, and since I was coordinating "AP Idol superstars", I assumed I would have to be there to run it. Well, I rush around in the am to get there and Lynne goes "What are you doing here today? I didn't expect to see you today!" AHHHHH! Oh well, so I helped out for a bit, then came back to the office to attempt to study for my test that was at 5. Didn't work too well. Went to class at 2, took my test at 5, was done by 5:30. So, I came home, scooped up the dogs, and went to Robin's, to wait for David and Caren to get there. I FINALLY finished the Titans quilt to take to Robin & Mike, and she LOVED it!!! Yay. I got there about an hour before David & "girl". Interesting, to say the least. I don't know if she's really that shy, or she was overwhelmed by David, Robin & I being loud and yakking, or if she was nervous about meeting me, or what?! But she hardly said 2 words to anyone but him all night, and just seemed kind of whiny and like she had better things to be doing. I supposed it could be weird to meet "the ex", but if what David says is true, that she's wanted to meet me because he's told her such good things about me... but then, as E, Lauren and KM brought up in Sunday chat, perhaps he's just saying that to make himself feel better. They couldn't get why she'd want to meet me, or why he'd be trying to sell me so hard to her. I never thought about it that way before, I just assumed he was telling the truth. And, it is very uncanny how much we are alike, I saw that in the few hours we hung out. She's a lot more high maintenance than I am though.. I think perhaps "the expers" are right tho, she may very well have felt threatened by me, now that I look back. Several of the comments she made, about knowing David for 10 years, spending time with his parents, or him spending time with her family.. that's all she could talk to him about, was about stuff only he would know about. Like "This is mine, we have our own life" kinda thing. Who knows. I tried talking to her, asking her about them, her school, etc, and I never got more than a couple sentences out of her. If that's not the pot calling the kettle black. But, I guess I've changed a lot in that respect.. being able to meet people and talk comfortably with them. I hope I never gave off the impression that she did by being somewhat quiet and shy. One last note, which I realized yesterday, I guess it was.. Thursday was April 22.. what would have been mine & David's 3 year anniversary. I kind of noticed it in passing earlier in the week, but never put 2 and 2 together to realize that I was meeting them on "our day". How weird is that?! Then when I happened to realize it, I laughed. GOod for me. =)
Ok, now on to smokie SMOKIE SMOKIE!!! Well, first let me finish up Thursday by telling you I didn't get home till almost 2am Friday, had to get up at 6 to get to Austin Peay to pick up the van and some stuff from the office to get to Nashville to pick up Smokie Norful's band at 8:30. Ok, all well and good. The plan was to get them, bring them to Clarksville, where they had day rooms at a local hotel (becuase it apparantly wasn't good enough for them to sleep at...) Well, we get there, and there are only 3 out of 5 that are supposed to be there. One missed their flight, and one wasn't coming in, if at all, until 5. What the hell!? Professionalism?! Uhm, yeah. So, we take them to the airport hotel they were staying at, and they all want to go right to sleep, instead of going to Clarskville. So, Richard (some big wig at the University) & I wait around for about 2 hours for the next person to land, she wants to stay in Nasville with the others until it's time to come back to C-ville. By this time it's 12:30. So, I come back to Clarksville, dead tired. I'd expected to have from like 11-3pm free, to nap and go to the gym, but NOOOoo! So, I came home, checked in on the doggies, and then had to be at sound check at 2:30ish. Ugh. All I wanted to do was crawl on the floor and sleep. But no, had to help do lighting and sound stuff. At least that was fun. I got to help with sound check, talk into the mics, test the lights on the big fancy light board, and play with buttons on the sound board.. it was to fun. Then, we had our event staff meeting, got assignments, etc. The band finally got to do sound check, about 2 hours late. In the mean time, there was mass confusion over the last person to come in and how he was going to get to Austin Peay.. finally Lynne told them "tough, he's riding in the limo with Smokie, get over it." SO that was taken care of. I had to drive the band to their Clarksville hotel for a little over an hour, while they got dressed. I went home and took a shower, thank goodness, I felt gross. Then, picked them up and shuttled them back to the venue and to reunite with Smokie. I got to go in and meet him. He's a pretty nice guy, oddly enough. He's sooo tiny, smaller than me!!! And, he's got the cutest sons!!! One of them was sitting on the front row, just in front of me, and he was getting restless, so I started making faces at him. He loved my fish face. Cracked up!! Smokie performed for a whole hour!! WOW! Then, they all putzed around, while we were waiting to see how many Austin Peay vans they needed to get back to Nashville. They finally left about 10, luckily I didn't have to cart them. Instead, I got to stick around and clean up. We took down EVERYTHING. Lights, speakers, sound boards, stage. It was actually kind of neat, to see it all come down like that. And I love doing stuff like that, moving, pushing, gettin' dirty & sweaty. I guess it was almost 1 when we got done. Holy moly. 6am to 1am, with no sleep or rest. Yipes.
SO, needless to say, I slept until almost 2 on Saturday; got up and went to the gym, putzed around for a bit, and went back to bed. Which is where Carmen comes into play, and me sleeping through everything. Oh my goodness, I have NEVER been so tired and exhausted. Never ever do that again. I didn't get a lot of sleep all week, so the last 48 hours caught up to me HARD!!
So, I think that's it for the past few days. Now I must go catch some rays. Only a few more days left on my tanning package. :-P
First and foremost, today I turned in my last paper, EVER!!! Well, I shouldn't say that, cuz I still have my "thesis" to finish up, but that's in it's 3rd draft, so it doesn't truly count. Hot damn. I was driving home from class tonight thinking, "oh my gosh, what am I going to do with myself all week? I have nothing to work on, NOTHING!!!" It's so great. I can come home, chill, finish up sewing some skirts, pack, and just live. Wow. But, I must admit, it is also kind of sad, as it means I'll be leaving Clarksville soon. =( I've recently realized how hard it is going to be to leave. I've let myself become really attached to people here. Case in point- Carmen called me sometime Saturday afternoon, to give me directions to someone's house, they were having a margarita night. Well, I never called her back, and then ended up sleeping thru the party, and her calling at about 11:30. Then, she called again at about 12:45, wanting to know if I was ok.. she'd called and left several messages that I didn't hear because my power went out and lost everything, and that I didn't know cuz my new cell phone doesn't beep at me when I miss calls. She had come over to my apt to check and make sure I was ok, but I slept through it (this was about midnight, I think) All because I was a zombie thanks to SMOKIE!!
And now, onto my exciting 2 days. First, Thursday was Pig Pickin' Spring Fest, which kind of bombed because it was rainy on and off. But, Thursday's are normally my day off, and since I was coordinating "AP Idol superstars", I assumed I would have to be there to run it. Well, I rush around in the am to get there and Lynne goes "What are you doing here today? I didn't expect to see you today!" AHHHHH! Oh well, so I helped out for a bit, then came back to the office to attempt to study for my test that was at 5. Didn't work too well. Went to class at 2, took my test at 5, was done by 5:30. So, I came home, scooped up the dogs, and went to Robin's, to wait for David and Caren to get there. I FINALLY finished the Titans quilt to take to Robin & Mike, and she LOVED it!!! Yay. I got there about an hour before David & "girl". Interesting, to say the least. I don't know if she's really that shy, or she was overwhelmed by David, Robin & I being loud and yakking, or if she was nervous about meeting me, or what?! But she hardly said 2 words to anyone but him all night, and just seemed kind of whiny and like she had better things to be doing. I supposed it could be weird to meet "the ex", but if what David says is true, that she's wanted to meet me because he's told her such good things about me... but then, as E, Lauren and KM brought up in Sunday chat, perhaps he's just saying that to make himself feel better. They couldn't get why she'd want to meet me, or why he'd be trying to sell me so hard to her. I never thought about it that way before, I just assumed he was telling the truth. And, it is very uncanny how much we are alike, I saw that in the few hours we hung out. She's a lot more high maintenance than I am though.. I think perhaps "the expers" are right tho, she may very well have felt threatened by me, now that I look back. Several of the comments she made, about knowing David for 10 years, spending time with his parents, or him spending time with her family.. that's all she could talk to him about, was about stuff only he would know about. Like "This is mine, we have our own life" kinda thing. Who knows. I tried talking to her, asking her about them, her school, etc, and I never got more than a couple sentences out of her. If that's not the pot calling the kettle black. But, I guess I've changed a lot in that respect.. being able to meet people and talk comfortably with them. I hope I never gave off the impression that she did by being somewhat quiet and shy. One last note, which I realized yesterday, I guess it was.. Thursday was April 22.. what would have been mine & David's 3 year anniversary. I kind of noticed it in passing earlier in the week, but never put 2 and 2 together to realize that I was meeting them on "our day". How weird is that?! Then when I happened to realize it, I laughed. GOod for me. =)
Ok, now on to smokie SMOKIE SMOKIE!!! Well, first let me finish up Thursday by telling you I didn't get home till almost 2am Friday, had to get up at 6 to get to Austin Peay to pick up the van and some stuff from the office to get to Nashville to pick up Smokie Norful's band at 8:30. Ok, all well and good. The plan was to get them, bring them to Clarksville, where they had day rooms at a local hotel (becuase it apparantly wasn't good enough for them to sleep at...) Well, we get there, and there are only 3 out of 5 that are supposed to be there. One missed their flight, and one wasn't coming in, if at all, until 5. What the hell!? Professionalism?! Uhm, yeah. So, we take them to the airport hotel they were staying at, and they all want to go right to sleep, instead of going to Clarskville. So, Richard (some big wig at the University) & I wait around for about 2 hours for the next person to land, she wants to stay in Nasville with the others until it's time to come back to C-ville. By this time it's 12:30. So, I come back to Clarksville, dead tired. I'd expected to have from like 11-3pm free, to nap and go to the gym, but NOOOoo! So, I came home, checked in on the doggies, and then had to be at sound check at 2:30ish. Ugh. All I wanted to do was crawl on the floor and sleep. But no, had to help do lighting and sound stuff. At least that was fun. I got to help with sound check, talk into the mics, test the lights on the big fancy light board, and play with buttons on the sound board.. it was to fun. Then, we had our event staff meeting, got assignments, etc. The band finally got to do sound check, about 2 hours late. In the mean time, there was mass confusion over the last person to come in and how he was going to get to Austin Peay.. finally Lynne told them "tough, he's riding in the limo with Smokie, get over it." SO that was taken care of. I had to drive the band to their Clarksville hotel for a little over an hour, while they got dressed. I went home and took a shower, thank goodness, I felt gross. Then, picked them up and shuttled them back to the venue and to reunite with Smokie. I got to go in and meet him. He's a pretty nice guy, oddly enough. He's sooo tiny, smaller than me!!! And, he's got the cutest sons!!! One of them was sitting on the front row, just in front of me, and he was getting restless, so I started making faces at him. He loved my fish face. Cracked up!! Smokie performed for a whole hour!! WOW! Then, they all putzed around, while we were waiting to see how many Austin Peay vans they needed to get back to Nashville. They finally left about 10, luckily I didn't have to cart them. Instead, I got to stick around and clean up. We took down EVERYTHING. Lights, speakers, sound boards, stage. It was actually kind of neat, to see it all come down like that. And I love doing stuff like that, moving, pushing, gettin' dirty & sweaty. I guess it was almost 1 when we got done. Holy moly. 6am to 1am, with no sleep or rest. Yipes.
SO, needless to say, I slept until almost 2 on Saturday; got up and went to the gym, putzed around for a bit, and went back to bed. Which is where Carmen comes into play, and me sleeping through everything. Oh my goodness, I have NEVER been so tired and exhausted. Never ever do that again. I didn't get a lot of sleep all week, so the last 48 hours caught up to me HARD!!
So, I think that's it for the past few days. Now I must go catch some rays. Only a few more days left on my tanning package. :-P
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