Been feeling sharp as a pillow and generally out of sorts this week, the very not-me kind of mood I hate. But I went to my commercial art class tonight and damn if I don't feel all but completely renewed. Being there is like being around my dearest friends, I'm the best of all possible me's at those times. All my wacky ways spill out unfettered and no one seems to mind, or want to call the authorities. It's a better-than-Martha-Stewart good thing. And may I say how life-affirming it is to finally have some clear idea of what you should and want to do with your life? Well I think I just did! Maybe that's why I can't work up a respectable amount of panic about my current state of employment; I can see the light at the end of the tunnel and this just feels like a little pothole on the way. Either that or I'm in heavy, heavy denial. Maybe both. But I really like my original theory oh so much better.

Just three short days til another life-affirming experience: a road trip to Dayton, Iowa to see my favorite band in the whole wide world, Noble Savage, rock what may be the only house TO rock in Dayton. And the extra special bonus is that it's a Halloween party. I love Halloween. Nothing really stops me from playing dress-up every day of my adult life, but this is when I really get to kick out the jams. And somehow in the process of pretending to be someone else, I seem to become even more me. How weird/deep is that?