So, as some of my "tweets" have been reporting, I have been running around with a cold and feeling generally just tired and coughy. I would stay at home and get some sleep, but they are renovating the apartment building next door, so it's nothing but sledgehammers and yelling worker types starting at 7:30 in the morning. So, I am here at work and, again, this week is already starting out very busy.

Obviously the issue of the week has been the fires that are seemingly everywhere. I mean, it takes 3 minutes for the local NPR folks to list all the various fires and associated road closures, evacuations, etc. At first it was like, "whoa, fire," and now it's like, "uhmm...these are going to go out, right?" The other day I was driving along the 405 and about 15 fire trucks went down the opposite direction, and it was actually pretty intense; people were honking their horns, etc. It reminded me of riding in the subway in New York and seeing the workers on the train with you. It's like, these are the people who are deep in the story, who are heroes of this drama...and it is a drama, I mean, it's crazy. The skies were orange yesterday and everyone is walking around with red eyes, coughing. Monday morning I got to my car and it was coated with a tiny little layer of dust; it reminded me of the snow in New York and I felt sad--instead of snow or even dew, we get ash. It's like the Earth is burning itself up because it knows that the rains are dying.

It's screwed up, I gotta say. Puts some things in perspective and other things to shame, in a way. Like, who cares whether or not one gets called back for a fast food commercial when people are losing their homes? Their lives? What?


Other than the world burning up around us, things are okay. I have been more busy than ever with the release of Mac OS X 10.5, which comes about 10 days after moving to a new building, so there are all kinds of things we are working on. Whatever. Work is challenging, but I am learning a lot and so far things are looking pretty good. It should be interesting to see how the 10.5 launch goes and what the response will be...

The past two times I have gone to yoga I have been stuck in traffic and thought that I was going to be late for class, and both times I just made it, even when I was late, the class was already starting late, so it did not matter. I thought this was kind of nice, because we spend so much time trying to get places and freaking out about being late, but it seems to me that oftentimes the events that you most need to make it to, for me these days my yoga and acting classes definitely fit that category, the timing just works out. I am not sure if you can rely on it, you can't just dilly dally and assume it work out, but if you make the effort, things seem to work out. That mini struggle seems to be applicable to many of the challenges we find in our lives. If you work on it, if you really work on it, you can do what you want to do. Though it's pretty much a refrain in every other house song, it's something that I need to remind myself of these days. The auditions have been slow for the past two weeks (which works out since work is ruling my school) and I have been kind of bumming, just a bit. I look at some of the shows on right now (Chuck in particular) and it's odd to see so many of my type on screen at once. I mean, those of you who know me, if I had said there was a show about a goofball IT guy who runs around fixing computers and then finding himself in dangerous (and apparently hilarious) situations...well, it's a near fit, the goofball IT guy.

whatever. it's all coming. Stay positive. Listen to this new Sharon Jones CD. Good.

Tags: fire, weather