Yesterday was Light-At-The-End-Of-The-Tunnel Day.

I felt a huge sense of relief all day, because even though I had a couple of bizarre conversations with my supervisor (which for us is normal), I knew it was the last day we’d be trapped in our particular brand of cat-and-mouse.

I went home and napped on my lunch break, then went back feeling surprisingly refreshed. I only took a short lunch so that I could leave at 4:30. I just wanted this horrible week to be over as soon as possible, so that Good Things could filter in again. I got home and took Nap Number Two, until Andrea came over, whereupon we went to dinner at Koji Osakaya forthwith. (. . .”whereupon we went to dinner at Koji Osakaya forthwith.” Wow.)

Afterwards, I was King Mellow of Mellowland for the next three hours, reading blogs, that sort of thing. I thought I’d go to bed early and continue the ‘crash’ of the day. Just then Adam called, to tell me about a couple of songwriters he knew of who he was going to go see, and he wanted to know if I’d like to come too, so we could talk ‘n’ stuff. I said of course, and went over to pick him up.

We went to Kay’s–which was just okay–and watched the first guy play–who was just okay–then stayed long enough to listen to a duet of women, one of whom played the fretless bass really well, which was interesting, but as a group they were just okay, and we were getting hungry, so we decided to go elsewhere.

It took quite a bit of driving around, and after finally deciding on Vincente’s, which was basically closed, and the Barley Mill, which was only serving French fries, tater tots, and something else fried, we finally ended up at a newish pizza place called Hammy’s. We took our two personal pizzas–which, even though they use all organic ingredients, were just okay–back to Adam’s place, had some nice wine, and spent the next two hours talking about things like the trials and tribulations of being working musicians here in town, the directions we want our respective musical careers to go, how to do more of what we like (and how to make more money at it!), how to ‘work smart’ instead of just work hard, what it’s like to play with the people we play with, things we can do to take our careers to the next level, how to be more ‘artistic’, how to ALLOW OURSELVES to do what we really want to do. . .all these types of things and more. It was very invigorating, especially after the week I’ve had, and I really needed a night like that.

Thank you, Adam, for such a great time. It looks like Good Things are starting to come back again already.

I slept in today until a little after noon, which I haven’t done for two months, and I can’t even tell you how much better that made me feel today. Tonight is my friend’s birthday party, and it’s going to be at Grandma’s karaoke bar. It’ll be Kelly’s and my first time there, but I’m guessing that hijinks will ensue. I’ll letcha know.

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