Misery of All Miseries! Mr. Impatient Learned Today as a Patient That His Patience Will Be Tested! Dang You, Ted Lasso & Apple TV! Bollocks!

This morning, by the time you read this, I'll be on a plain to Nashville to do work with the Iniat-ED crew, previous divergent winners working on literacy in the digital age initiatives. Yesterday I had to have the final crown put on (well, final for this tooth anyway) and while scrolling my phone I learned that the last episode of Ted Lasso was going to be released 3 hours later than usual. So, instead of my 9 pm Tuesday night opportunity to unwind my brain, it came out at midnight. I can't stay up that late, even if I didn't have to leave in the morning. 

And now I won't be able to catch it until I return. There went everything I planned out for last night...I worked all day so I could get to that moment (even though I don't want it to end). Oh, well.

I have my course for tonight online, just in case anything wonky occurs at the airport, and I'll have to work from the studio apartment I rented (cheaper than a hotel room and it's downtown). I'm treating this as a mini-writing retreat, too, and looking forward to seeing a few friends in Tennessee (although I'm sort of over Nashville....been there, done that).

And I'm happy to report the crown went on swimmingly, although being in a chair with suction and tubes all while allergies have snot running every which way and random coughs come out of nowhere is not a great way to spend a morning. It seems to be the year for insane allergies and I'm suffering, too. I'm ready for the pollen to simply go away.

Wow. Good-bye, May. That went fast!