A Good Thing About Coming Back to Life As I Know It:
I was definitely missed by my friends, especially my friends at work.  My work friends demonstrated their lunacy (and love for me) by taking my instructions to the most absurd degree—I had left a note on my computer monitor saying that, because I was away, please don’t leave anything urgent on my desk.  Thus began the deluge.  I arrived at work today to find my desk absolutely covered in boxes, packages and notes all labeled with witty notes about how URGENT they were.  Examples included “so urgent, it REEKS of urgency,” “you have NO IDEA how urgent this is” and “this is BURSTING with urgency.” I was told by several people that the urgent display of urgentness took on a life of its own while I was gone, growing exponentially every day.  It literally took me 20 minutes to disassemble the construct of urgency.

A Bad Thing About Coming Back to Life As I Know It:
While I was gone, apparently Bad Things™ happened, and two people are leaving my singing group.  When you have 9 people in the group, 2 people leaving is a sizable dent.  So we’re going to do one last show here in Los Angeles on Sunday, November 20, and then we’re taking the holidays off before the rest of us re-evaluate what we do next.  So if you have any desire to see me sing and perform, November 20th is your last chance for a while to do it.  More specific details about what time that day and where are coming soon.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, my neighbors in the building next door are holding KaraokeFest ‘05 in their apartment with all the windows open, and I have to put a stop to the wretched rendition of 4 Non Blondes’ “What’s Up” that I’m currently being subjected to.