Day 2: Already a failure

I had an idea that I stole from Jane and that was to take a picture everyday in 08. I would then blog about it and even if it was only a little bit I would still be a lovely document of the day. Every day is special. At least it seems like it ought to be. However, here on day 2, I am without camera. I left it at my parents house yesterday and so there for missed several photo opportunities. The one I am the most sad about missing was a van that somehow slid sideways into a ditch on Gladys street. It was just lying there, leaning on it's side, with three cars parked on the road around it, the drivers milling about trying to figure out how to fix the problem. Also, my apartment's dumpster was quite full today with the remnants of Christmas. There was an old dresser dumped in there along with a number of appliance boxes and various other tidbits of life that would not normally be relegated to the trash unless one had just gotten a new whatever-it-was. I haven't seen so many interesting things in there since chair-dump day earlier this fall when for no reason I could see several of the complex's dumpsters had armchairs in them. It was peculiar. The last missed photo op of the day was simply that of my car buried in a foot of snow. It hadn't even been left alone for 24 hours and it was almost completely hidden in white. Hopefully, I'll get my camera back tomorrow so I can capture these treasures throughout the rest of the year. The world must know about things like what my neighbors are throwing away.

I've taken off work for the next three days to relax and get all the things done that I haven't been able to get done. I also did it in attempts to prevent burn out - I'm dangerously close. I actually was productive in several ways. I started a deep cleaning of my apartment. I bought some groceries and paid my rent. The other day Nick found an aiport employee ID badge in the parking lot so I found a mailbox and stuck it in it. That's what I was supposed to do per the instructions on the back of the badge. I don't just go around sticking found items in mailboxes. I went to rehearsal. We did a brief practice of the kissing scenes today. I'm a little concerned that we're all going to wind up with mono at some point during the run of the show but we'll see. Here's hoping for healthy actors. Luckily, my kiss is really just a mashing of faces with minimal fluids shared so any illness really should be able to be contained.

Now it's sleeping time. I'm going to go see if Jane took her picture today.