So, beyond the pandemic we’re dealing with in the other post, my world’s largely been occupied with long days spinning well over a hundred pages of well-written (if I do say so myself) bullshit to accomplish the Herculean effort of pulling together the acquisition package for a multi-million dollar omnibus IT services contract that should have been started months ago, but was introduced to me by my boss in the middle of last week to be complete by mid-day Thursday. It’s been mostly a blur of ten hour days writing various documents and justifications and plans to get this business sorted out. Nothing like trying to make the best case you can when you don’t have nearly all the information.

I did take off Tuesday to get my annual physical and such sorted out – turns out I’m terribly healthy, though I’m still holding on to some of my winter weight (about 20 pounds too much that I’ll drop when the weather is reliably bike-friendly), and apparently my posture is awful (which my lovely spouse confirmed). That didn’t take *all* day, so I spent the afternoon running around the city with the eldest child who’s home on spring break this week. We had fun browsing bookstores and eating fried appetizers that aren’t good for us.

A lot of the crazy March Irish dance stuff is getting cancelled due to the viral apocalypse, so the girls are getting less busy, which is frustrating for them, but not as frustrating as “opposite day” at the feis, where folks who nailed their performances regularly got ranked lower than people who forgot steps. It was…odd.

At this point, I’m still looking at traveling down to SC for the weekend for a house concert with a bunch of other filk buddies, though I’m keeping an eye on what the host has to say as we get closer. Likewise, Fanta-Sci still appears to be on for next weekend in Durham, though honestly, who knows what’ll happen between now and then. Any gathering at all on the schedule is, at this point, purely theoretical until it actually happens.

Anyway, tunes. Kinda the usual, though number 1 was definitely influenced by my listening to a bunch of Riot Grrl the other day:

1. “My Sister” – The Julianna Hatfield Three
2. “Cemetry Gates” – The Smiths
3. “Dracula From Houston” – Butthole Surfers
4. “What Is Life” – George Harrison
5. “Good Fucking Bye” – Matt Skiba
6. “F.N.T.” – Semisonic
7. “Baby Britain” – Elliott Smith
8. “Ladykillers” – Lush
9. “Domino Effect” – Ozma
10. “Kate Is Great” – Bouncing Souls
11. “I Look Around”- The Rain Parade
12. “I Think I’m In Love” – Beck