On Monday I drove down to Charlotte to be in a parade. They have started a new arts festival called Shout! and the parade was the opening of the festival. It was a lot of fun, though it would have been better if Georg had been there (he was sick and had to stay home). I haven't written my trip report yet but I did post a few photos.
Thirteen is at the vet today. She's developed a problem with her left back leg. On Saturday we noticed that sometimes she had trouble getting up -- her leg seemed to give out when she tried to stand up. I called the vet that day, but they couldn't take her until today. Then in the meantime she started limping, only a little most of the time but a really bad limp if she had been lying down for a while. They say they're going to do an X-ray. I was telling someone at work about it yesterday, and said "I'm worried she has --" hip displasia was how I was planning to finish that sentence, but he cut in with "--a tumor." I really, really wish he hadn't said that. It hadn't even occurred to me to worry about a tumor, but I've thought about it plenty in the past day.
In other good news, the new schedule at the radio station was posted. I got a really horrible show -- 5 to 8 on Saturday morning. I have to admit I'm pretty extremely bummed about it. I loved Monday mornings so much. I even wrote a note on my grid, begging to stay in that time. I had heard that they give better shows to people who help out, and I really thought I had earned enough brownie points to stay in a good time. But I didn't realize how much tighter the schedule is during the school year. Maybe they're giving preferential treatment to students. Which I couldn't really fault. After all, it is a student organization, funded by the university.
I'm trying to look at the bright side, think of the positives of losing a daytime show and going back to pre-dawn:
--an hour of "safe harbor": before 6 I'm able to play indecencies. You'd be surprised how many good songs happen to have a four-letter word in them.
--since it's the weekend I can take a nap after my show, rather than staggering through a workday like I did all spring.
--it's a good time to listen in Europe. Which of course will be irrelevant in October when the DMCA takes effect and we shut down our web stream, but in the meantime I can invite my multitudinous -- ah, that would be 1 -- European friend to listen. Except that she only has net access at work. Oh well, so much for that.
--I never had much social life on Friday nights anyway.
--all those pesky phone calls and requests just break your stride, but at that time I'll never have to answer the phone.
--since no one I know will hear my show -- heck, no one will hear it -- I won't have to worry about correct pronunciation or fumbling with PSAs.
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