Been working a lot. Work, work work. It's good to have work, although not so great when two jobs conflict. One thing I have learned in the past week is never, ever drop everything to respond immediately to a client's computer crisis. I did that a couple of times when I had no work & was glad for an opportunity to get out of the house and get paid. I'm way too busy now to rush right over when they call, but it's awkward because they've come to expect it. (Kind of annoying too: they're not paying me to be on call.)
The other important lesson I learned: before putting in extra hours to get a project off your plate, make sure you're working on the correct part of the project! Earlier this week I put in tons of time to get something done before a client's meeting, only to find out that they don't have any time to work on it before the meeting and wanted me to do something else. Grr! I have no one to blame but myself for that one. But still, grr.
I just got done subbing the RPM show. It was very fun, though the last forty five minutes were a bit chaotic, what with the urban DJs and their friends piling into the control room and setting up all their equipment. We had a potential equipment crisis because they needed the turntables, no one there knew the combination to the cabinet, and we couldn't get anyone on the phone who knew it. But we did finally talk to the urban director who gave us the combination. They dragged out the turntables and set them up, only to discover that they were both missing the needles! We took the needles off the regular turntables, which will totally fuck them up if they do any scratching. But what could we do, they had to have needles.
Anyway I felt like my show pretty much fell apart in the last half hour because of all the commotion. I guess I don't have good concentation, because I have a really hard time doing a show with a bunch of people in the MCR with me, talking to each other and taking cell phone calls. At least they were all friendly and unfailingly polite. (One of them had brought a little acoustic guitar that kind of looked like a ukelele, and played along with my last track. That was cool.) And the best part is the regular RPM dj promised to bring me back an Alcatraz t-shirt. Yay!
I was at the station last night too, doing new DJ training. I'm not really a joiner; I should attend board meetings and music staff meetings but I never go to either. Training is good because otherwise I'd never meet anyone at the station. Hung out for a little while with Christa and Rick! afterwards, but I was feeling a little hoarse from talking to the trainees for two hours so I didn't stay and talk for very long.
Not much time for gardening this past week, but I did divide and replant some irises. Big blue bearded irises, very pretty. My friend Peggy had given them to me when I first moved in here, and I didn't know I was supposed to divide them. So they had just sat in the same spot for years and years, getting more and more crowded. I divided them yesterday and planted them along the driveway today. Once they were divided it turned out to be so many! They really fill up the space I had set aside for them. I added a few new ones -- blue and white, peach, and black (which idea we got from Lisa, who's planning black tulips in her garden) -- but it's mostly all the blue ones from Peggy. They never bloomed much where they used to be. I think this was because the soil was bad, they weren't getting enough sun, and we recently discovered that Thirteen likes to pee there. But the new bed is nice and sunny, I added lots of compost before planting, and it's outside the fence so the dogs can't pee on it. If the irises like it there and bloom well, it will look really impressive.
My friend Nancy offered to give me irises (blue and yellow bearded, and blue and purple siberian) when she divides them later this year, so I left room to add them to the iris bed. I'm amazed at how generous gardeners seem to be. Several people have offered to give me perennials from their own gardens. My friend David is even having his father (president of the TN daylily society) bring me some daylilies when he visits next month!
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