Post-vacation exhaustion and future plans
Jul. 9th, 2022 10:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jon_chaissonIn which I come back from a four-day respite up north (Mendocino) to work four days in a row doing evening shifts. I don't mind them, except for the fact that I walk in experiencing the tail end of the lunch rush, followed by maybe an hour of downtime, then around three hours of the post-work-commute rush, so by the time 8pm rolls around I am wiped. Thankfully next week's schedule is up and it's all mornings, which I prefer!! Those are usually dead quiet from 6-8am and I'm done just about the end of the lunch rush. Then I get to go home and write!
Speaking of the respite, it was quite a relaxing visit up north, even though the drive there itself (around 150 miles) is quite the slog with no really easy way to get there. Most of it is up 101 and that's fine, but I can either turn onto 128 which will take me through narrow-road wine country and redwood forest which is nice but offers few pit stops, or I can turn at 20 further north and take the twisty-turny-up-and-over-the-mountain-road which is also nice but exhausting. Despite all that, we only experienced about 10 minutes of fireworks, had breakfast delivered to us each morning, and even got to visit the bookstore cat (whose name is of course the Great Catsby). The weather was cooler and there was a distinct lack of allergens and pollen in the air, much to our relief. Plenty of pictures were taken!
Up and coming: we will be seeing Motion City Soundtrack again in Berkeley -- the same band we saw just before the pandemic started -- on Sunday, and next Saturday we'll be seeing the Airborne Toxic Event with the SF Symphony! Looking forward to both shows!
Speaking of the respite, it was quite a relaxing visit up north, even though the drive there itself (around 150 miles) is quite the slog with no really easy way to get there. Most of it is up 101 and that's fine, but I can either turn onto 128 which will take me through narrow-road wine country and redwood forest which is nice but offers few pit stops, or I can turn at 20 further north and take the twisty-turny-up-and-over-the-mountain-road which is also nice but exhausting. Despite all that, we only experienced about 10 minutes of fireworks, had breakfast delivered to us each morning, and even got to visit the bookstore cat (whose name is of course the Great Catsby). The weather was cooler and there was a distinct lack of allergens and pollen in the air, much to our relief. Plenty of pictures were taken!
Up and coming: we will be seeing Motion City Soundtrack again in Berkeley -- the same band we saw just before the pandemic started -- on Sunday, and next Saturday we'll be seeing the Airborne Toxic Event with the SF Symphony! Looking forward to both shows!
