(DC 178 7) snow day

princess roses and balloons to n on her birthday today.

we called a no-go on the arts night show in boston this weekend due to weather. kat and i were planning to drive up together. she was going to fly back sunday and i was going to drive back with my car full of gear. they are due for a second slamming storm saturday night, and it looked like i might get stuck in boston sunday, so we cancelled. other katharine was going to cancel the whole night altogether, but when it looked like the storm would wait till past midnight, she decided instead to scramble to find a replacement performer.

i sorta forgot about winter when we booked this show 6 months ago, but winter comes to boston in a big way.

in full disclosure, i also wasn't feeling quite prepared for this performance. increased work demands - especially travel - have left me severely limited time for plain, old-fashioned practice and creating. nobody wanted us to risk the 16 hours of winter driving for a medi-okra show, especially if few people showed up because of the storm.

another factor that went into the decision was the appeal of being able to finish my film scoring homework, which has suffered at the bottom of my priority list for a third semester now. it's due tomorrow night. perhaps i will be able to salvage some integrity there and get it all finished, FINALLY.

it reminds me of those
rare delicious childhood days
when a foot of snow
would come on the days
of tests and a big homework assignments.

will i ever escape my childhood ways?