i'm a pixel here, myself

between_names, I got your card today. Thank you!

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I am seriously counting the days until I fly back east. Every year, I'm all "oh, this year will be different; I won't end up super-over-committed" and then... I end up super-over-committed. SURPRISE.

W10: work, help A+J move
Th11: work, dress rehearsal
F12: work, concert
Sa13: help other!J move, 2 concerts
Su14: climbing, concert, caroling
M15: work, cookie-baking party
T16: work, maybe climbing
W17: work, gym
Th18: work, holiday party for work
F19: work from home, holiday party for friends
Sa20: last-minute shopping, breathe?
Su21: fly back east

I'm also wishing I could rant about some work stuff, but, you know, nondisclosure and whatnot. Sigh. Suffice it to say, my boss and her boss are being incredibly stupid about some things lately and it comes from not knowing our systems or the data nearly well enough, in addition to not understanding where my time goes. I feel like I keep, for lack of a better term, whining about work *at* work, and that's not the best recipe for success :-|

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The weird thing, for me, about Folie À Deux is that it is immediately recognizable as a Fall Out Boy record. And part of that has to do with it being a lot like Infinity On High, but IOH wasn't all that much like From Under the Cork Tree, so, you know. I have only listened to the first half of FÀD, but I already knew Patrick's vocal tics and where he would take the melodies even before he got there. This is kind of weird, but also kind of comforting, like a really old comfortable t-shirt. Maybe some of the orchestration is new and different, but this is not a New And Different Fall Out Boy Record the way IOH was. Am I wrong?

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Now is the time on Sprockets when we write yuletide.