Friday, October 09, 2009

Staycation!


My vacations tend to be stressful, rather than restful, perhaps because instead of using the little time I have to relax a bit and unwind, I try to pack too much in to too little time. Now what for me is too much may be very little to somebody else, but we all have different capacities, wouldn't you say? I worked Monday, so it all began on Tuesday, when I was meeting a friend for dinner and theatre. Attempting to get anywhere early inevitably doesn't work out for me, and that once again proved to be the case as I waited in the train station parking lot 1/2 hour for a spot to open up, thinking "don't run for the train." Of course I ran for the train (and unluckily the escalator was out of service), missing it by literally seconds. Had a great time at the show though ("Wishful Drinking" w/Carrie Fisher - very funny!) and even got the star's autograph afterward (bizarrely enough we were virtually the only ones at the stage door). Yesterday I ran around further, having lunch with my attorney (whom I adore btw) and seeing a friend who has been living in California for the past 20 years and who I hadn't seen in at least 5. Tonight I am going to dinner at a Buddhist temple and tom'w I head out east to the Hamptons Film Festival. So I am doing fun things, and also things I wouldn't ordinarily have the time to do. So why do I feel guilty? Could it be because the piles of clutter on my desk are getting higher and deeper?