Ricochet of Thoughts

As usual, the staff was restless today and expected, I suspect, that I would shut the office around noon. They dropped hints all morning. Considering that I close the office for an entire week, you'd think that would be enough, but apparently it is not. Because of the workload and all that I had to get accomplished before the holidays, I kept most of the staff at the office until about 4:00 pm, a pretty severe thing to do, judging from the reactions I got. The bills must be paid.

One of my blogger friends asked whether Leonard Cohen's Tacoma Trailer instrumental piece is, like, a house trailer in Tacoma? I don't know. I've always wondered whether that was it or whether it refers to a trailer...as in movie trailer. If Leonard were sitting next to me, I'd ask. The music touches me for reasons unknown...I suppose I would characterize it as music that conveys a sense of loneliness, sadness, loss...something like that.

I'm chomping at the bit to be kicking back in Mexico. That's an odd feeling, it is; anxious and on edge in anticipation of relaxation. It will be interesting to go to a place where daytime highs are in the neighborhood of 75 degrees, while nighttime lows get down to below 30 degrees.

We'll spend one week in Mexico and then come back with an agenda to quickly straighten the office so we can welcome the search committee of a prospective client into our office just two days later. It would be a significant piece of business, but I've stopped counting chickens...they too often are hit by semis as they cross the road.

I watched an interesting little piece on PBS news tonight. It was about Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks' project to write a play a day for a year. Now, they plays are being enacted inside and outside theaters all over the U.S. I couldn't find a link to the item I saw, but here's a link to an interesting piece about her project.


Today is my nephew's birthday. I called him during his celebratory birthday dinner with his wife, his sister and her husband, and my sister. Sounded like they were having a good time at a dumpling house.