Wednesday, 30 June 2004
Number 50
I was talking with Heather this evening, when stress came up (that is, the subject of...). If I learned one thing from my hell weeks, it's that at a certain point I just top out on stress. I never had that happen before (I've got a lot of stress to share, I guess).
Successive 18-hour days and massive worry actually ended up putting me into a Zen-like state. "Zen-like," in that I still could get upset - but not more stressed. In fact, I think I was calmer during the worst of my work periods (like the 37-hour day) than at the project's start (when all I could see was the hugeness of what lay before me) or its end (when I was having to play firefighter instead of savoring a job well done).
Other things, potentially picked at random but probably not:
- After avoiding it for the last two years (thanks to massive overplaying in every media outlet), I finally picked up Gotan Project's "La Revancha del Tango." Most excellent. Buy it. Play it. Love it.
- Last weekend, I finished off the World's Most Expensive Q-Tips. Well, they weren't, really. But how else can you describe what amounts to a package of fluff that I hauled over the Atlantic? Using nice words, smartass.
- Heather is amazing, and I'm lucky beyond words to have her in my life.
That is all.