Dragging Illness, Filling-Up Of Weekends...

[magicaddict]

...and the general lack of a good stint of spare time in my life to spend with Emma is slightly tetchifying over the course of the next month.

Chris was due to be coming down for the weekend, arriving tomorrow, but is obviously feeling sympathetic toward the England cricket team and has picked himself up an injury requiring considerable antibiotics and negating the possibility of our drinking away the weekend. So that's being re-arranged - there are possibilities there, maybe the last for a while. Next week I'll be heading home for the weekend, to see the new (well, different) car, possibly have a hair cut and because I won't have actually been home since January. So that weekend's out. The following weekend Emma heads home, and while that means I'll be able to watch the Bahrain Grand Prix (a welcome by-product of not larping up on campus any more) and see McLaren finally bite the narcissus and debut their chrome-plated car, it means I can't spend it with her. The weekend after that is the 24hr, which I'll be GMing part of (and running the monster room/camp/box for the rest of if I'm allowed), so there won't be too much time available there either.

Bollox.

Guess it'll just be the odd evenings and parts of the weekend then. I suppose I shouldn't complain - there are plenty in a worse position than me - but I reserve my right to be unreasonable and annoyed. We've only been together for five weeks.

I'm sitting on top of several results that could really propel me forward at a hell of a rate if they work. If they don't, I'm back to treading water, but that's hardly anything new. One of them would be a bit of a crowning glory if it did - large-scale ring structure incorporating -censored-, hydrogen bonds and siloxane links. I could write an entire chapter all on that if it did. Doesn't look all that promising, unfortunately - the protecting groups have fallen off the -censored- a little quickly - but it does have a whole three days to redissolve before I declare it defunct. We live in hope, unlike the the remainder of one of the reagents that I put into a vial and heated to remove the solvent I had used to transfer it - it proceeded to heat out of control and begin to decompose. Bloody marvellous.

Auditioning for Charley's Aunt this evening will be a bit of a crap shoot. There are just about enough guys for the parts available, but just about everyone's going for the same two, including me. It ain't going to work, Horatio, it ain't going to work...

If I end up playing Babbs and have to get dressed up in drag for my art again - before I hit professional theatre - I really am going to want to know why.

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[helbling.livejournal.com]

Sweetie, we'll still get plenty of time here and there - you'd be surprised how much time can be packed into one evening. And the 24 hour is still iffy as to whether I'm playing or monstering, so we might get time there too...

But either way, it's only a month...as is so often said, we have plenty of time after that.