Driving like bastards, stompin' the throttle

I have said it a couple times before and spoken too soon but things could be looking up where the teenager is concerned.  He seems like he's taking our help to stop using and willing to correct the course he was on.  He has mentioned wanting to stop using to a couple people but I think socially it's all his friends do, so hopefully the drug tests give him something to hide behind. If he wants to blame me as the asshole-policeman father instead of stand up to the single most common form of peer pressure that is 100% fine by me, at least he'll be healthier for it.

after a massive burst of productivity I find myself falling behind a little bit and I blame Tivo for part of it and BattleStar Galactica for the other part - the two combined to give me BattleStar Galactica when I should be burning the midnight oil on my computer getting things done.  I don't care if it makes me a huge dork, that show rules.

On the work front things have been strangely mellow - I've been in town and working at the desk for the last week or so ( I have a show coming up but it's in the Cities, I think the boss is making an actual effort to keep me here ) and usually that becomes painfully boring but I've been enjoying the work that being sent my way, a continuation of the ideas I put out to the guys in London for our marketing and how we position ourselves to clients.  It's brainy work and I have found myself tired at the end of the day, a satisfied kind of tired from putting a lot of energy and focus in one place for 8 hours, like that good kind of exhausted you get from physical labor only it feels like my brain is getting worked hard, which is a nice change of pace. 

Usually I suffer from an excess of ideas and get frustrated by lack of an outlet.  Who knew work could actually be stimulating??

but tired + tivo luring me to the TV at night does NOT = productive time I need right now

I'm going to have to start slacking somewhere (probably work, gotta make the hard choices) or get a LOT done before Friday when a new episode of BSG comes out.  If I don't make a lot of headway before the 24th when LOST returns we may have to push the Improv Festival to August.