---
title: 'Beginning the Weekend, a Little Bit Early'
date: '2006-04-21T11:44:00-04:00'
permalink: /beginning-the-weekend-a-little-bit-early/
tags:
    - travel
---

Good gravy, but I’m useless on a Friday afternoon. I’ve gotten nowhere in the [drafting](/drafting) process today, not least because my usual morning yogalates class completely and totally kicked my ass. Since then, I’ve changed clothes, eaten lunch, drunk a diet Coke, and sat here hitting refresh on my browser over and over, to no real end.

I must, however, get my act somewhat more together now, in order to pack. It’s been a blissfully travel-free six weeks, but alas, it’s over. Tomorrow, I leave for L.A. for a [meeting](http://www.futureofthebook.org/academicpress/), about which I’m really excited. I come back here Wednesday, and then leave again Thursday for [this](http://www.nojazzfest.com/). (Yes, poor me.) Then back here Monday, and then off on Thursday once more for [here](http://www.bahamas.com/bahamas/index.aspx). (Life is very, very hard.) Then back again on Monday, at which point there will be something less than two weeks left before I load up the car and head back to California.

Trust me when I say that I’m not complaining about any of these trips, including the return to California. It’s just how fast the time is going, and how quickly I know the next few weeks will speed by, that’s got me dragging my heels a bit, wanting nothing more than to stay put, right now.