It's already midterm for fall university courses, which does not seem possible... but life hurries along, particularly for older people. I swear that I assumed life would move more slowly as I aged but, as in many things I thought I knew, I was incorrect.
Yesterday, Kathleen and I drove up to the DU light rail station to catch one of the many trains I expected would be coming but, only to find that the entire H-Line is shut down (temporarily, I assume, but I missed any sort of announcement of this). So we waited 15 minutes or more for a rather crowded E-Line train and that train did not go to the Convention Center but only went to Union Station. \
Again, not a big deal as the plan was to saunter up the finally complete 16th Street to see all the improvements. We mostly noticed many young adults cramming into restaurants for lunch at the north end of 16th, with fewer people as we walked toward the Capitol.
One obvious change was far fewer homeless folks in evidence, which was nice but a bit concerning. They must be someplace...
Anyway, we sauntered and later ate lunch at the Thirsty Lion and then got back on the lightrail and back to the DU station... and home. The entire excursion took four hours or so.
I was exhausted. Watched a couple Star Trek: Enterprise, a prequel to the series that predates the Prime Directive, though we see some of the issues that led to that. And before I knew it, it was 6:45 and I was off the choir rehearsal for the first time in weeks (due to conflicts caused by traveling and visitors).
Butt-dialed Sara on Wednesday evening and found her in the airport. She and Jack were off to San Francisco to pay a quick visit to Drake, who was Jack's best friend until the family moved last year. Phil and Tricia flew to Phoenix for a weekend get-together with friends at the Anderson house they have use of in Scottsdale.
It was exhausting just to think about all the jetting around, and I guess the air travel slow down did not cause major issues.
And now it's Friday and pizza day, and my "new" 8-week strategic writing course for CSU officially kicks off on Monday, though I had to have it open by today. I might have it all set but I must admit to rushing through some of the set up. When I agreed to take on an extra class this term, that second session seemed forever away. It was not.
I have two major projects that are partially complete. The first is my St. Luke's history book, which is in decent shape through 1995, spanning 70 pages, including photos. I asked Kathleen to give it a read and she did, though the other day she asked, "Is this missing some pages?"
Her question is a good one and a gentle nudge to find time to get the next "chapter" into shape and get us to 2003 or 2004... the place I have pictured as a good spot to publish the first "half." I don't know how I will publish, but likely through Amazon. I can put off that decision, however, as I try to get a number of sources to get back to me with anecdotes and insights and personal stories about the church.
The second project is under more time pressure: the script for my latest readers theater production, which needs to be ready prior to "auditions" on Nov. 8... so I'm about a month out. The good news is that I settled on a title -- Mr. Kringle Goes to Town -- and have some random Hallmark spoof scenes pretty much ready to go. We fly to the hellhole known as Portland next week, and my latest goal is to have a rough draft that we can read through by then.
So that's one week.
See what I mean about life moving quickly?
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