Wow! This last week or so has been difficult. But last night I got to go to a nice party hosted by the financial management firm that handles my life savings. It was great fun!
In the first place: ego-stroking! I gussied myself up in the St. John suit I picked up at My Sister’s Closet the other day (did I mention the jacket alone was around $1200 when new? mwa ha hah!). I felt like Cinderella! Several women actually came up to compliment me on how good I looked! So that was nice.
More entertaining, I met two very interesting people who are perfect candidates for Funny’s “Entrepreneurs” series. I’ve been meaning to revive that for quite a while but with the ridiculous work overload, have not managed to work up that much energy. Both of these folks are doing some wonderfully creative things, as is the woman I’ve intended, for the past several months, to write about. So: for sure, next week I’ll try to get in touch with these folks and interview them. Pour vous.
Today: two more student papers to drag through, one of them truly gawdawful and one just awful. Of the five papers I read yesterday afternoon, I did not pass a single one. Well…unless you consider a D-minus passing. Not, I might add, because of any ditzy little schoolmarm-type trash, but because they did not bother to do the assignment. No joke. Five papers of five in which the bouncing young freshman did not read the instructions (which are the same for all the other assignments that they’ve succeeded on, more or less) and did not do what they were asked to do.
Now this, IMHO, you can’t blame on the public schools. Well. Except insofar as kids who can’t or won’t follow basic instructions are passed through the grades and given a diploma after killing 13 years in the K-12 system.
You can take a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink. Maybe we ought not to be certifying the dry horses as having been watered. 😉
As soon as that task is done, it’s onward to finishing the content for the CE Desk website and then off to an Alphagraphics to get our new business cards printed up. Yay!
That may leave enough time this weekend, around singing tomorrow morning and performing the Fauré requiem in the evening, to actually clean this filthy house and try to undo some of the puppy damage in the backyard and tend to the limping pool.
But first, there’s a farmer’s market at a park up on the other side of the North Mountains. Think I’ll take Cassie and stroll around there.
Glad you had some fun! I also like to find great clothes at a big discount. Recently I stopped by the Talbots Outlet store in Marrietta, GA. I found a beautiful silk blouse for $7.50 that had been just over $100 originally. Can’t beat it! They have such good quality clothing that almost lasts forever. I don’t like all their styles, but found some things I liked. Fun!
@ Maggie: Wow! That is a coup! {sigh} I love silk blouses.