Miss Piggy Lunchbox

First, sorry for my prolonged absence. It started because I attended Seattle Opera’s production of Wagner’s Ring cycle, which is four operas, three of them very long. All told it was 18.5 hours if you count just the time from the start to the end, including intermission, but not including commute, parking, etc. time. I thought I would blog that week by writing up reviews of the operas, but it was hard enough just to get my work done in time.

And then last week I got sick, which put me further behind and left no time for blogging. Plus I can’t stand listening to music when I’m sick…it just leaves me with negative connotations of whatever music I listened to at the time. I still have very negative feelings about Nirvana’s very good Incesticide, which was a gift for me when I got my wisdom teeth taken out. I know music is supposed to have healing qualities and ameliorate pain and discomfort, but for me it’s the other way around: the pain and discomfort and up coloring my impression of the music. I guess that’s me in a nutshell, huh? Always able to find the cloud in that silver lining.

So anyway, this last weekend My Baby headed out of town for the weekend to the family cabin because she knew I’d need the weekend to catch up. And I did. And I had an entire holiday weekend lined up with nothing but Getting Things Done on the docket. So imagine how thrilled I was to fire up the machine and find out that the server on which all of my work is at school is down for the weekend. It’s hard to describe how overwhelmingly depressed I was. So, an illness during the week and no server availability over the weekend. Somebody up there really wants me to fail.

I won’t be able to post much this week, either, but more on that next week. Sorry.

Tags: meta, music, My Baby, opera, school, Seattle, self-pity, sick, Wagner

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