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Was the meeting productive? No only no, but... well, you get the idea. I managed (with the help of someone near the area to pick them up) to pre-purchase the last table of tickets for the Guy Forsyth show tonight. It's standing room only now. I am getting anxious for my time off next week. I am trying to fill my afterwork evenings with activities to pass the days more quickly. I am so desperately in need of time off work. I am completely burned out. I was comp'd some Astros tickets for Thursday's game. I never watch sports on television... but I will go to live events, so that should be fun. I'm going to an erotic poetry reading downtown tomorrow night, so that's one more calendar tick toward my sweet and listless, lazy days of next week. I have to check and see if Isabelle is back from France, so I can go back to Alliance Francaise. Especially since I've decided that if anything ever happens to my job here, I am moving to Paris. One of the days next week, I'm going to hit the trails at Warda and maybe also Huntsville State Park with Sam and Lou. I also would love to go visit my mother and grandmother, but I'm not sure when I can make the trip. My prime driective in vacation mode is rest, rest, rest, and more rest. If I could sleep from Friday afteroon (the 9th) until Monday morning (the 19th)... I would. B-U-R-N-E-D O-U-T.