The Week Ahead

Currently, it is thundering like the end of the world outside. Thunder in the big city has a way of ricocheting off buildings and thus sounding more frightening than it should. Today I had a job interview for some temp not-for-profit job. I hate going on interviews. I never know how to answer questions like: "what skills can you bring to the company?" "Um, I work hard?" The job would be all the way in Evanston which would be a bitch of a commute. All I know is I desperately need money especially since I just dropped an excessive deposit on my place.

I hope this will be a great week because there is an insane amount of things occurring. The biggest thing is Pitchfork Fest Friday-Sunday, all day and evening. For the first time in two years of going, I was denied a press pass. WTF? Luckily I know people who did acquire a pass so I'm going to finagle my way in somehow even if it means passing out mags for a couple of hours. The thing about festivals is they are simply too much. Three days. Like 40 bands or something. The heat. Despite that, they are usually great networking events and it gives me a chance to see people I haven't seen in a while. So, I'm looking forward to it but not necessarily the line up. I've already seen a lot of the bands playing there or have no interest in them. I'm totally more excited for Lollapalooza, but I'd rather not think about it now. On Friday night, one of my fave bands, Spoon, is playing a free show but in order to go, you have to win tixs. Damn. I need to have some luck thrown my way this week. Sat. night after Pfork, there's an open bar with one of my other fave bands, Voxtrot, DJing. I'm going to die with excitement. On Thursday, it's another installment of Tech Cocktail. More imbibing and awkwardly conversing with geeks.

In my last post I discussed the concept of doors both metaphorically and literally. Doors have been quite a potent symbol in the last few days. I've concluded that doors are never shut even though at first they seem to be. Doors are shut in my face all the time, but sometimes when you least expect it, they open again. You just have to put the thought out of your mind for a while but things do have a way of resurfacing. There have been some situations with doors lately, doors opening, doors ajar, doors closing. Doors, doors, doors. I like the saying, "If you don't take no for an answer, sometimes you get what you want." I guess that's the way I'm feeling now. And despite all these doors re-opening, I feel good about everything. I'm okay with the situations and wouldn't have it any other way even though a lot of uncertainty still remains. I'm going to keep the possibility of open doors open.

I hope everything goes well this week: that I get into Pfork successfully and have a great time, that I work and make money, that I get some writing done and progress with it, and that I don't open any new doors this week unless they are of the metaphoric kind.