I’ve been running off my feet this week. Worse: not only have I been putting the cereal in the fridge and the juice in the cupboard on a regular basis, but I was just about to prepare dinner when I realized that I MADE IT THE NIGHT BEFORE.
It’s been Deadline City around here, and that probably explains the short circuiting of my short term memory recently. I have an interview this afternoon with a really interesting local designer… an assignment from Ottawa Magazine. I am really looking forward to meeting this person. But I really hope I don’t do something idiotic, like forget my name. Or get lost on the way to our interview. Ha. No. I’m just kidding (Okay, maybe HALF kidding). I am confident in my interviewing abilities, I am. Really! This is something I’ve always loved about the life of a journalist … talking to people I wouldn’t ordinarily get to talk to. And that’s the coolest thing in the world to me.
(Have I ever told you about the guy with the skull? No? I will have to save that one for another post. It was for an assignment I had for my science reporting class when I was at Carleton. My teacher, a person I now consider a friend, gave me some great advice that I have never forgotten.)
After my interview-with-the-designer I am pencilled in for a 30-minute chat with someone from CBC radio. It’s a listener survey – go figure. I can’t imagine what they’re going to ask me about.
It hasn’t all been rush rush rush. Yesterday afternoon I had five minutes of pure bliss. I brought Sarah and a friend of hers to Maplelawn Gardens. I needed to take some photos (for yet another piece I’ve been working on) and the weather was perfect and it made sense to Just Go.
So we did. And I’m glad.
We had the whole place to ourselves. The sun was setting. The warmth of the day was still clinging to us. It was like living in a dream.
Do you know the park I’m talking about? Ever been?
Gotta run. But in the meantime, tell me, what fun plans do you have for this lovely fall weekend?
