work and play

i am finding it impossible to work this week. all of my bosses are out of town, and the show i'm working on is stupid as all get out. i have spent the last two days researching vacations. i just got back from vacation. i'm like a vacation expert. vacation research has now replaced craft blogs as my favorite thing to look at online. i now know how much a quarter share in the hamptons is, what site to go to for a last-minute package deal to the carribean, many, many adorable little farmhouses to rent in the catskills, what many, many hotel rooms look like in colorado springs, and their pools, too, etc.

the last few trips i've taken, i felt like i'd already been to the place, so maybe it's not such a good thing to be so well informed. maybe that's why i liked amsterdam so much. we hadn't even planned on going there, so i had no idea what it would be like. it seemed really, really foreign. i had always assumed it would be like sweden or denmark, which i've been to. but it wasn't. it wasn't as clean. and the people seemed more, it's probably dumb to say, authentic somehow. less formal, maybe?



this is a picture of some strangers in the courtyard of the hotel we stayed in in paris posted on tripadvisor. that site is awesome, mostly because users upload photos of the places they review.

anyway, i think the crap i'm editing is actually starting to bother me; it's not just pure laziness. and also i know i can pull it out at the last minute like i always do, and everyone will be impressed as hell. it's a really easy life. and that really suits me. but maybe i should try to work on something that doesn't turn my stomach.