and the morning comes...

So it's morning. And I could really use another say 5 or 6 hours of sleep just because. I really think the late nights are starting to catch up with me. I may have to be good and go to sleep at a normalish time tonight. Which just hurts to think about. My late nights are partially due to Dayse and partially due to Mom. Mom doesn't get home until 12:30 and we have a routine. We have tea together and chat and then I go to bed. Of course, I usually don't go right to bed because it's tough to tear myself away from Dayse when she's being cute and silly, which is pretty much always.

I was seriously considering a mental health day today but I really can't get away with it. We're just too shortstaffed at the moment. Me calling out means someone else has to work a double and I just hate making someone do that. I've had to do it so I know how tough it gets to be when you started working at the store at 8 and you can't leave until 8 at night. Sometimes later even. So yes. I am going to work.

BUT. Before I go to work, Mom and I are going into Philly to go check out the work of Christine Hiebert at Gallery Joe. I have to do a gallery report so I need another gallery to go along with the Chi retrospective the other day. And Mom wants to go to Gallery Joe, so that's where we're going. It's really tough to say no to Mom. She gets all wide-eyed and earnest and excited. She babbles and then it's all you can do to say no to her and most of the time we don't. So I'm up about 2 hours earlier than planned to go to Gallery Joe with Mom.

TWO DAYS!

[bounces]

It's a good morning. TNL wrote JoeC. Lucy wrote Letterboys. I am in a happy fic place this morning which is just nice. AND I figured out the ending for Width of a Circle which pleases me to no end. Of course once I finish something, my beta is leaving for nine days, but I should be able to scrounge one up.

I have coffee! And a shirt with ruffly sleeves! I feel pretty and sparkly!

[crashes]

I need food.

and the morning comes...

So it's morning. And I could really use another say 5 or 6 hours of sleep just because. I really think the late nights are starting to catch up with me. I may have to be good and go to sleep at a normalish time tonight. Which just hurts to think about. My late nights are partially due to Dayse and partially due to Mom. Mom doesn't get home until 12:30 and we have a routine. We have tea together and chat and then I go to bed. Of course, I usually don't go right to bed because it's tough to tear myself away from Dayse when she's being cute and silly, which is pretty much always.

I was seriously considering a mental health day today but I really can't get away with it. We're just too shortstaffed at the moment. Me calling out means someone else has to work a double and I just hate making someone do that. I've had to do it so I know how tough it gets to be when you started working at the store at 8 and you can't leave until 8 at night. Sometimes later even. So yes. I am going to work.

BUT. Before I go to work, Mom and I are going into Philly to go check out the work of Christine Hiebert at Gallery Joe. I have to do a gallery report so I need another gallery to go along with the Chi retrospective the other day. And Mom wants to go to Gallery Joe, so that's where we're going. It's really tough to say no to Mom. She gets all wide-eyed and earnest and excited. She babbles and then it's all you can do to say no to her and most of the time we don't. So I'm up about 2 hours earlier than planned to go to Gallery Joe with Mom.

TWO DAYS!

[bounces]

It's a good morning. TNL wrote JoeC. Lucy wrote Letterboys. I am in a happy fic place this morning which is just nice. AND I figured out the ending for Width of a Circle which pleases me to no end. Of course once I finish something, my beta is leaving for nine days, but I should be able to scrounge one up.

I have coffee! And a shirt with ruffly sleeves! I feel pretty and sparkly!

[crashes]

I need food.

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So we hit Gallery Joe and it was pretty cool. I wasn't a big fan of Christine Hiebert's work but there was the artist, Yane Calovski, who does these AMAZING ink drawings. 4 from a series of 20 were up from his series Untitled sleep deprived drawings(What's the story morning glory). Mom and I fell totally in love with him.

We now own two of his ink drawings. Of course we don't get them until the run of the show is finished but still! God, they're so beautiful. I totally recommend that anyone in the area head down to Gallery Joe at 302 Arch St. and check this guy out. It's just beautiful stuff. And ask to see the rest of the series. The curator will show them to you.

Also, I finished Width of a Circle and my beta is gone (gone!). I get to see her in two days (whee!) but that doesn't mean she can beta for me. So, I kind of need a beta. If you're up for it, leave me a message. I'll probably get back to you like late tonight. Unless you get to me in like the next ten minutes.

And...I'm going out with Mike, Brielle, Waryne, Charles, and various others. Whee!

I am in such a damn good mood for some reason.

I like this.

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So we hit Gallery Joe and it was pretty cool. I wasn't a big fan of Christine Hiebert's work but there was the artist, Yane Calovski, who does these AMAZING ink drawings. 4 from a series of 20 were up from his series Untitled sleep deprived drawings(What's the story morning glory). Mom and I fell totally in love with him.

We now own two of his ink drawings. Of course we don't get them until the run of the show is finished but still! God, they're so beautiful. I totally recommend that anyone in the area head down to Gallery Joe at 302 Arch St. and check this guy out. It's just beautiful stuff. And ask to see the rest of the series. The curator will show them to you.

Also, I finished Width of a Circle and my beta is gone (gone!). I get to see her in two days (whee!) but that doesn't mean she can beta for me. So, I kind of need a beta. If you're up for it, leave me a message. I'll probably get back to you like late tonight. Unless you get to me in like the next ten minutes.

And...I'm going out with Mike, Brielle, Waryne, Charles, and various others. Whee!

I am in such a damn good mood for some reason.

I like this.