I’m walking on tip-toes around the telephone, not daring to log onto the internet before noon, giving monself “permission” to quickly check email between 2:30 and 3 and holding my breath from 4:00 until 10:00.
For some nutty reason, I was HUNGRY by 1:00 today and I toughed it out until about 2:30 when I finally succumbed to temptation and had some peanut butter, strawberry jam and margarine on Autumn Wheat. That depressed me. It just made me fat, dull, and sleepy. For the first time in months I lay down on BED and napped with Fresh Air and Donald Greenspan as the interviewee. Maybe it waz mostly Greenspan, but it was easy to nod off to sleep, comforted that if the substitute teacher service called, my phone was inches away.
Lots of holding breath after awakening about 4:10. No joy from the sub service..
Finished proof reading the last of the next aviation history journal articles and typing four pages of recommended changes to the California editor, a truly good fellow.
TV was a wasteland all evening. Not even Charlie Rose turned my crank whatever that means, so rather than wasting my time half reading aviation history and keeping half an ear tuned into a Dutch novelist whose name means as much to me as mine does to him, I decided to engage my attention more productively. I arose and returned to the office. As a result, over the broad course of evening, which included a late, light supper, I did get in a hefty few hours of aviation history indexing for the first time in about a week. I MUST spend some time with the web site client, but I have to get onto the internet to do that, and I don’t want to miss a call to substitute teach. Alzooo, timing is everything, and I cannot write well when the world is a grey veil over my outlook. Maybe “tamale” (as the Mexican weather forecaster joke went when I was in second grade — “Chili today and hot tomale”.Ah the gentle wonders of youth!) I’ll get an honest hour in over noon.
I wass redeemed away from the greyness in the evening partly by the av history work and by the time spent bringing the ArtsCalendar up to date for the first time in months.
Here’s hoping the sub line calls Wednesday morning. I have only so much frikking breath to hold before I have to let it go.
Live . . . .
Hey there, Job … I feel your pain. Have you tried CallWave? It lets you stay online and still get important phone calls. The first 30 days are free … after that it’s $7 a month added directly onto your phone bill.
http://www.nomissedcalls.com/
We had it years ago before we signed up with Insight’s internet service … it was a handy little gadget. It’d be worth trying for 30 days just to see if it helps you get those sub calls.
Oh, they also have a gadget called Catch-A-Call that detects incoming calls while you are online. Unfortunately, it costs $35 … so I never tried it myself. I’m WAY too much of a cheap bastard to go that route. haha
Anyhow … just checking in. Hope they call and keep you busy for weeks!
ThirtyWhat
ThirtyWhat — THANKS for the recommendation re CallWave! I’ve signed up. What remains to be seen is whether or not I can use it to the max without computer audio. I disconnected my audio because there’s nothing I want to hear from this magic electric box. IF I can hear my TELEPHONE ring, two feet from my right hand, when a call comes in, I am sure I will renew gladly at the end of the thirty day trial. It will pay for itself in catching calls I’d not know about until it’s too late.
Thanks again for rhe heads up!