BAKLAVA AND WATERMELON
Wednesday, June 2, 2021
Most days are full of surprises.
From morning till night, endless surprises and unexpected events.
Much stream, intermittent consciousness, more stream – unless we are too busy focusing on one thing, and then we miss all the great things flying by. Take yesterday, for instance. On second thought, don’t take it, please. It was filled with so much I don’t know if I can remember it all to tell you – but I don’t want to lose any of it.
I lost count of the good things. I started tired, but got fresher by the hour – funny things happened, nice things happened, somebody gave me a gift, and someone gave me a conversation I didn’t expect full of fun and some mutual connections, and we laughed about our frailties and ideas sprang from that conversation too.
Emails, fast and furious, saying yes, saying no, saying maybe – each one moving the conversation along or moving a relationship along. Did I mention how tired I was? My Monday routine of working on FACILITYCalgary ended with loading the website at 1:30 AM Tuesday – a short sleep and then up at 5:00 AM to check overnight newswire feeds, tweak things, load/publish and read the morning papers too before sprinting into action, a property showing and meeting new clients and a box of baklava. My run-down of a day got more rundown, and it was hot and breezy – so bright, I was driving with windows and sunroof open while on a call that kept cutting out. It turned out my cellphone got overheated from sitting in its spot, bathed in all that sunshine, and so was I. So my day was overloaded and my non-vaccinated very-smart friend’s bravado at avoiding vaccination and COVID while travelling in the U.S. – to my continued surprise at how really smart people can do really dumb things, and then I got a text message telling me to book my 2nd shot of COVID vaccine, which I did, and I talked to my daughter too. And that new client, the one who gave me the box of baklava, sent an email giving me instructions to draft an offer …
Some people were golfing, some were playing games, some were negotiating frenetically, and some were discussing taking a sabbatical. A colleague and his team switched firms – so I wished them well and considered whether I would ever want to do that. Probably not. Yes, indeed, so many things to think about and do, and I ate some mediocre watermelon and took a power nap.
I’ve heard sometimes that getting overtired and being really buzzed (was it the baklava with a watermelon chaser that did it?) - the day was so full, exhausting – and I haven’t better in quite a while. And I think I lost a pound, but I’ll probably find it again tomorrow.
June 1st was like an entire month of fun crammed into one day.
I wonder what the 2nd will bring.
P.S. – and I spent some time working on what I think is a dynamite column I’ll publish on the weekend; it feels odd, I’ve spend so much time on it, and today’s column took about fifteen minutes … or maybe less than that; I wonder, is there caffeine in the baklava?
Reader feedback:
I try to take away something from each of your daily musings . . . unfortunately I took away a little too literally on this one. Two speeding tickets in two weeks!, SB, Calgary, AB