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[angelak]

Alright.
Tim has sent out Concert on the Green scheduling.
I'm looking forward to it, and have now made the commitment [I actually did 2 months ago.] Supposing Finance doesn't get all picky about hours and regular employees contracting with Tim, I'll be on for every Tuesday of the summer, after my usual work day. Yes, believe it or not, I'm EXCITED about this.
My Will is that finance entirely forgets their peskiness, because for the past 5 years things have gone on as they are, and it would be a royal pain to have to revamp that stuff. It could potentially be disappointing in regards to my own participation. Yet- I choose to believe they'll forget they even questioned it.

This year, I really am looking forward to the income of it, aside from the fact that I also enjoy camera operating. It’s fun covering events, even under the direction of crazy-shouty-Tim. That’s part of the fun. He yells and is all up into his directing. It’s also what makes the camera crews I’ve been on in the past, so good.

I like it also, because it requires something that I usually have trouble with: I have to stand still, completely quiet and still, for minimum of 2 hours straight, LISTENING and focusing on nothing OTHER than the shots and photography involved. Second to second listening. There is no TIME to sit and think on anything, it’s quick moving. It sounds easier than it is. Until you’ve had to be under direction of someone who is looking out for all the different cameras around-and per second, finding the best shot. That may or may not be the camera I am operating. The readiness is often like waiting to escape the start line of a race, each and every shot.

It’s not that listening to Tim, the director, that is hard. It’s the fact that you’ve got to be right on it and take spur of the second commands. It’s reflex work, it’s quick-thinking, gentle-movements that take dexterity and wit. You can’t move jerkily, or fast...yet you have to think fast. It’s the listening coupled with these elements, and the concentration. It’s feeling good about a concert, hearing that we all did a good job afterwards.

Or maybe that we needed to improve. There are always good and bad nights. And for these things? It’s also the supplemental income that makes frivolousness a bit more possible.

Essentially... it’s...

Work after work!!!

Though, hopefully folks with bear with me during the Fires' season. So far Spell is meeting Wednesdays, which is the day after I pull a long work day [essentially 7AM-9PM].

I could really use the extra $ here and there, so this excites me. And? I've committed that I actually need to take the $ that I earn from the concerts and put it OUT of my WaMu, mainstream spending bank account. Thus, the money will actually stack up so that I'll be able to use it for whatever. [IE-- Hawaii funds, or saving for other various things that I may find myself needing-- yet, I'm guessing it'll be utilized for Hawaii funds,] though if I'm lucky, I'll have siphoned off the money within the next 2 months [though my bank account may look shabby for the next 2 months or so....] to cover the ticket. [Thus freeing up the money for other things.]

If I leave it in my normal bank account, I tend to just spend it without even realizing it’s there, because it just fades into that which is combined with my normal income.....




It'll be soooooooooooooooo worth it—the Hawaii expense. For me to say this is a big first step ;)
Cause like. Really. I'm totally stoaked now. I mean, honestly? I always scoffed at the idiots who went to Hawaii in mere green jealousy that I could never do THAT. Fuck those frivolous, privileged fools!

Instead, I get to imagine how much MORE entertaining a flight will be with Khaya, and what fun we might encounter on the way out, perhaps some reading, or whatever people do on long flights. Maybe even write, or sleep. Any of those things. I am just imagining my excited, impatient self, finally on a flight, destined for Oahu... trying to do things that make the time go by faster, all the while bugging and yammering on to Khaya. Be pre-pared, beloved one... I might just talk your ear off. Or poke you ALLLLL the way to Hawaii ;)

And I can scarcely contain myself when I think of what hiking opportunities [beauteous...] that may present themselves to me.

Also; the sheer idea that I will be very detached from a lot of worries, really is great.
Oh yeah. And I’ll be able to go anywhere, because my birthday will have passed.
Khaya or my mom mentioned this, and the thought had never dawned on me.

So, now I have something to look forward to for the first time in a long time.
Perhaps it’ll do wonders for my motivation.
*siiiighs* Yeah!

The fantasies have begun. What might this trip be like?
The excessive interest that will fall upon me. A nervous instance of meeting “the parents,” and... envisioning that tie that will tell me more about who Khaya is... a window into a part of his life that I could never have seen before.

This to me, is thrilling. You can tell a lot about people when you meet their parents and see where they originated from. At least, I think so.

Perhaps I babble to much. These are a few of the things that whirled around in my mind during my hike yesterday. And the others were far more spiritual than this, yet... these thoughts that were not the spiritual, magickal ones that I normally experience on my hikes, left me smiling in abandon, thinking of just how much I am already looking forward to it all, now that I’ve made the conviction and decision that YES. This is what I’m going to do. [With Khaya that is.] There is no one I'd rather share one of my first real traveling experiences with.

If Khaya thinks I’d change my mind now, he’d be wrong.


-Angela

Comments

[herne51.livejournal.com]

"whatever people do on long flights."

I'm sure the 2 of you can come up with something to entertain you. :-D

[kdana.livejournal.com]

mile-high club!

just kidding :P

[bluedrgn52.livejournal.com]

lol. Just be glad you don't have two little ones and your plane ride doesn't include a 7 hour flight with a stop half-way...Yup...*twitch twitch* Now, I if I got to fly alone, I'd probably bring a book, a CD player and a sketch pad. Yup. :)

Thus

[ithisia.livejournal.com]

One of the many reasons I know I'm glad I'm not a mother.
[And nor do I plan to be.]
There are plenty of other enthusiastic women who can fill that role who are not me, teehee ;)

-Angela

Re: Thus

[bluedrgn52.livejournal.com]

hehe. They're great, and I've always wanted kids, but there are days when I get all twitchy. . . and those days usually include an airplane or just something crazy. lol.

Re: Thus

[ithisia.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah.
There are always...
Really super good days, I'm sure.
And of course, the horrible ones.
And more so, the one's in between ;)
I myself... lack the desire for any of my own, lol.

-Angela

Re: Thus

[bluedrgn52.livejournal.com]

lol. That's why we all have different things to do with our lives. :)

Re: Thus

[ithisia.livejournal.com]

Jepps.
That is not to say I don't have a great deal of respect and strong reverence for mothers ;)
It's a full time, difficult job that never ends.

-Angela

Re: Thus

[bluedrgn52.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's work 100% of the time, but it's worth it to those of us who want it. :)
My sister is another person who I don't think will have children. (I give it a 10% chance.) She says she has her moments where she wants them, "borrows" someone else's kid for a day and goes back to not wanting them. lol. Whatever works. :)

[centeruniverse.livejournal.com]

Sounds like you're making good plans towards things you really want! Way to go!

And these concert things...are they just free concerts in Issaquah, or what? I don't think I've heard of them before.

Concerts on the Green

[ithisia.livejournal.com]

Concerts on the Green are local Issaquah gigs.
TV-21/61 covers them, which is the local channel here in Issaquah.
Tim is the media specialist and runs TV-21/61.

-Angela

Re: Concerts on the Green

[centeruniverse.livejournal.com]

Ah ha. Makes sense to me. I wonder if I'd get TV-21/61 if I had any form of cable at all...

Re: Concerts on the Green

[ithisia.livejournal.com]

Probably not unless you lived in Issaquah :x
So sad.
Folks have asked this before.
I also get a lot of questions about where people can get the stuff we tape.
Alas.
It's just aired.
We will, however...
probably be posting them on the website this year.

So maybe you can watch that way ;)
You and others. Those who ask me...this year.
We just got video archiving up on our website this year.

-Angela

Re: Concerts on the Green

[centeruniverse.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's what I thought.

Hmmm...is it possible for people to just show up and watch the concerts, though? That sounds like it would make a good date, and I know a fabulous restaurant in Issaquah...ever been to Andy's Mandarin Garden?

Re: Concerts on the Green

[ithisia.livejournal.com]

They're free concerts every Tuesday night in the summer months.
They're there just for that; for folks to show up and enjoy them.

And no, I haven't been to Andy's Mandarin Garden... however, the next time I need a place to check out with Khaya, we should check it out! Thanks for the tip off on the restaurant!

-Angela

Re: Concerts on the Green

[centeruniverse.livejournal.com]

Hmmm...I might be able to do that, although right now, another friend is trying to set up a knitting circle on tuesday nights that I'd also like to go to. Gah, scheduling!

It's really worth it. I've been going there since I was three or four, so everyone there knows me on sight and fusses over me. Even if you don't have that history, though, the food is incredible and the prices are really good too.