five days

just five days.
three of which will be spent with poets.

i work hard, but i play hard. and while i didn't want to bring any school work, a deadline is approaching and with no distractions i may make it through one of the books this weekend.

i always take a stack of books, and instead of taking what i want to read, i'll take what i have to read. though i must say, i wanttohaveto read these books. they are no burden.

but time is getting away from me, and my boss graciously gave me the monday between my standard tuesday and requested sunday off, giving me five glorious days off.

i'm still working the time, just longer days when i'm there, so no rest from that perspective, but i'm grateful for the respite.

we spent the day with friends. strange to have that be plural. i'm more of a friend girl than friends girl. and especially with women more isn't always better. at least i've never found that to be the case.

but this is a great group of women.
and i'm grateful to be amongst amidst amiddle them.

our daughters have a good vibe, and it's just a relief.

we let out a collective sigh when our daughters together met and spoke together without our guiding them (which i'm nor really into, and had to steer the moms away).

all ends well.

we'll even try to get together some during the summer.

it's a relief, a wonder, a joy.

time i had some of that. joy. pure and simple.

we pretty much decided it was a gathering of the weird (by others' standards), but since normal is a relative term, it's a pretty normal group.

now to pack.