stasis

i have three days in a row off next week, one of which is with pay (hooray for full-time employment). not sure what i'm gonna do with the time yet, besides usual household stuff, but possibilities include:

1) dicking around with my amplifier (i never practice gtr, only pick one up at home when i'm learning material or testing a new piece of equipment, which the hughes & kettner still is, for all practical purposes)

2) reading the 1000+-page novel (the tale of genji) i started reading when i couldn't sleep last night

3) starting to teach myself conversational spanish (i was considering trying to learn japanese, but i figure spanish will be more useful, since i'm planning on living here the rest of my life)

4) writing something long (which i haven't in awhile, altho i have a few ideas germinating; when i was off for three days after the tornado in y2k, i wrote a 10,000-word piece about an obscure '60s band for a brit fanzine)

need to find _something_ to do other than sitting around obsessing over all the changes that seem to be happening in the world i live in lately.