A Quick Post Before Work

It's been a busy weekend, followed by an even crazier Monday, which leaves me rushing around trying to do a dozen different things at the same time.  My first day of work at the Royals stadium was last night, which was a lot of fun but also exhausting!  I exceeded my boss' expectations (phew!) with 521 shots of different fans willing to take a second to be photographed, but by the end of the night my mouth felt all goopy after forming the words "Can I take your picture for the Royals website?" more times than I care to count and I was so tired I was barely comprehensive while talking to my mom on the drive home.  Getting home was shortly followed by hitting the pillow, but I had a restless night of sleep with Royals and White Sox fans invading my dreams and demanding that I take their photos...


Today was a mixture of fatigue and trying to get the second bedroom in our apartment converted into a studio rather than just a storage room.  It's coming along, slowly but surely, complete with parking spots for Brian's and my bikes, an ironing station for real world outfits, a metal mask Brian never completed that is inspiration for not giving up, and Russian propaganda pushing us to work harder.

  
I was also able to find a cheap storage shelf at Goodwill the other day, which is sloppily storing a lot of art and photography supplies, including my collection of pens over the years.  I spent some time a couple days ago going through them and throwing out the ones that didn't work, noting happily that I had some pens and pencils close to a decade old and all the while thinking back to similar activities during the good old days of the overflowing Pen Drawer at home.

I still have a good amount of work to do to finish the studio, since the closet looks like this:

but I have high hopes.  And now, armed with a positive attitude, freshly-washed clothes, and a granola bar to eat after the National Anthem plays, I'm taking myself out to the ballgame.