Yes I spoof the spoof - sensitive but bulletproof

Tuesday, the time in between everything else, blog:

Today is....odd.

While the end of Festival, as with all big events, feels like it should be some momentous occasion, everything else just keeps flying by completely oblivious to pause we need to take to fully weigh what the hell just happened before getting to what's next.

But that never happens.

That's the advantage to always being on the go, you're always already running when you hit the ground - even if you have no idea what the hell is going on. Then I find out nobody else has any idea either. That's why today is odd.

I managed to keep things remarkably straight between the constant travel and the Nerd Parade but my serious job requires a certain level of just "playing along" since nobody I work with can even be sure which city they're in 100% of the time, much less where anyone else is on any given day. Apply that formula into any number of days into the future and things get exponentially more blurry and require even more acceptance of what you don't know.

Best just to roll with it - like when my desk phone rings and it's a client I have never spoken to before saying he's booking my plane tickets for "the show" - you just go along with it to a certain extent, even though you have no idea what show he's talking about or when the best day to fly out would be, since he's asking...

I'm really glad I didn't go along with it too long - turns out I was not on his show at all. Whew.

So when I knew nothing at all about the show I'm leaving for tomorrow, I didn't really panic or think too much of it. I knew which state it was in and figured I'd get the rest eventually....in the meantime I spent all of today compiling my thoughts on some issues I was asked to weigh in on and ended up producing a 23 page document that could very well cover the next several years, given the pace at which things change in the real world.

So today was spent entirely on the 10,000 foot view of the world and blissfully unaware if there's even a plane waiting at the end of the jetway for me. It was odd.

Tomorrow I'm back into the wind again, this time in a dumber suit.