Bummed Out

It's shaping up to be a pretty tough summer work-wise.  Started out with the San Diego trip for the half marathon, which was awesome, but Stefano left for Chicago immediately after that.  I went home for a day and then hopped on a plane to South Dakota for gravel road inspections for a research project.  Just got home yesterday, and I'm flying out tomorrow morning to Calgary to inspect their general aviation airport.  Haven't confirmed it yet, but I'll probably head out again the following week to do some more gravel road inspections in western South Dakota (which will be awesome scenery at least).  After that I get a bit of a breather for the Fourth of July (who knows if anyone will actually be in town to celebrate with me) and then I'm off again the next week to eastern Colorado.  Then a week home, then another Colorado trip.  Then I think that might be it for the summer.  I'm really not trying to complain about this-- in a lot of ways I set up my schedule like this on purpose.  I'm trying to front-load my field work this summer since Stefano is gone anyway and I'll have family visiting sometime in August, but it's just emotionally exhausting!  I'm really grateful we have a friend willing to watch Molly, since I would feel awful boarding her so much.

But what's really bumming me out tonight is that Stefano and I have concert tickets to see one of our all-time favorite bands tonight.  As in, one of the two bands that we listened to and bonded over on our road trip to concrete canoe nationals and we realized that we had a ton in common and he asked me out right after that trip and we lived happily ever after.  I was able to schedule my trips around the concert, but then he had to go to Chicago anyway.  And our only other local friend who's a fan (and who would have been up for going to a concert on a Monday night) also had to go out of town for work.  I could theoretically go on my own, and it's really tempting, but it would mean for a late night (and I need to leave at 6ish tomorrow morning to catch my flight) and it's in a part of town that I'm really not that comfortable being in alone at night.

Bummer.  Just bummer.  That really sums it up pretty well.

But to end on a happy note, I took a walk at lunchtime today and it was absolutely beautiful.  Sunny, breezy, and just shy of 80° (which since it's not humid feels really nice).  I'm really lucky to live here.  And I'm really lucky to have a great job that I love at least 80% of the time.   And I'm really lucky to have a job that sends me cool places like Calgary and the black hills of South Dakota.  But sometimes I just want to sit in my house and live a quiet little life.