RBOC: Post-overwork edition

I have no energy for blogging coherent thoughts, so you get bullets today.

• I have just completed a HUGE content conversion job for an elearning client. It was exhausting because the content was boring and the project seemed to go on forever. But it is done. I am awaiting feedback from the client before I can proceed to the next stage. Part of me wants a response right away so I can finish it off; part of me really, really needs a break from the material!
• Shakespeare in the Park this year was unusual. We saw The Tempest last night, which had some Western touches that I think really nicely encompass the constantly shifting identity of this city. The show was sponsored by the local NHL team, yes, hockey sponsoring the arts - unusual, no? The storm in the production was provided visually and aurally by Aboriginal drummers/singers and dancers. This choice did a good job of conveying the chaos of the storm, but not the thunderous destruction of it. So it was an interesting interpretive choice. Shakespeare + Aboriginal music + hockey. Where else could you get such a combination?
• This has been the summer of editing. 2 articles and 3 chapters. It's not quite over, but I can finally see the end of it, which is a relief. I have not spent so much time just revising things at any point! I cannot wait to get back to reading and writing again!
• I had my first pedicure ever last weekend, thanks to oldest daughter's treat. Yes, I realize most women by the time they've reached my age have had at least one pedicure. But I never had. So it felt very decadent, and my toes look absolutely gorgeous now! Much better than when I do them myself. I'll have to do this again sometime...!
• We leave for family vacation in ten days and we'll be gone for another ten. I have not been on such a long vacation since hubby and I met. I do not count the two week trip to England because I spent at least a week of it in seminars and/or libraries (cool libraries, yes, but they were still libraries). And I had assignments I had to complete. So I don't count that one. We're renting a cabin on the coast and right now, we have no plans aside from the time we will arrive and the time we will leave. Awesome!
• Middle and youngest daughters leave tomorrow to visit grandparents, cousins et. al. I'd love to be going with them, but if I'm going to avoid working through the first extended family vacation we've had in ages, I will need to work like a fiend while they are gone. I'll have to find a way to get there this fall if possible.
  

That's about it. Nothing exciting happening round here, nothing to look at, move along, move along...