It’s That Time Again!

Yes! It’s that time of the weekend where I try not to lose my fucking mind over all the shifts the agency has suddenly assigned to me for the rest of the month!!

ME (looking at my schedule on my phone at 6:45AM): “Jeepers, McGee! Doesn’t anybody else fucking work there??!!”

Unbelievable. I actually had to send an email to politely tell them to please trim back my hours. I had no less than 26 shifts between now and the end of May. That includes a stretch of 15 shifts in a row with no day off, and zippo time off for Memorial Day weekend. (And NO TIME to go to the shooting range…)

They, of course, have no clue about the TV pilot project or the play going to Off-Broadway. (They have no clue YET — I haven’t put in for those 3 weeks of needed time-off to go to NYC.) So they don’t know just how much of my mind I’m losing right now.

Luckily, I also got to wake-up to stuff like this today:

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This evening, I head back to that nice facility where I have the new patient. It is a short shift and the weather tonight will be just beautiful! So the drive there & back should be really nice.

But before then —

YES! I forgot to mention the other day that my favorite 94-year-old Japanese man did indeed get his teeth back! And we went out for sashimi and sake. And yesterday, we went to the Nature Preserve and he was bowled over by how GREEN everything has finally gotten.

And today — well, today, I’m not sure what we’ll do. It is just a splendid day and I want to make sure he gets to spend most of it outdoors.

Yesterday, he said to me: “You are symbolic of everything that has been good and beautiful in my life. I love spending these final days of my life with you.”

I could barely process the magnitude of that, gang. It sort of wiped me out. But what a beautiful man he is. And what an amazing life he has had.

But when I say that I’m exhausted, it’s not just the physical part of the job. It’s more the emotional part of it that gets to me.

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Okay, here’s this!

George and Nick and Carly in a store in Denver:

And tonight they will be in Portland, OR. Buy tickets here!! The next 2 shows are sold out.

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From James Tabor:

Were there Connections Between Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls Community? (25 mins):

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And I think that’s it! I gotta scoot!!

I hope you have a super Saturday, wherever you are in the world!!

Thanks for visiting.

I love you guys! See ya!

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I absolutely love Emmylou Harris. The first time I heard her sing this amazing song, I was 15 years old and driving down to Virginia with my dad. It came on the car radio and it just quietly blew me away.

I need songs like this today! Emmylou Harris, “One of These Days” from her incredible album, Elite Hotel, 1976. Enjoy, gang!

“One Of These Days”

I won’t have to chop no wood
I can be bad or I can be good
I can be any way that I feel
One of these days

Might be a woman that’s dressed in black
Be a hobo by the railroad track
I’ll be gone like the wayward wind one of these days

One of these days it will soon be all over cut and dry
And I won’t have this urge to go all bottled up inside
One of these days I’ll look back and I’ll say I left in time
Cause somewhere for me I know there’s peace of mind

I might someday walk across this land
Carrying the Lord’s book in my hand
Goin’ cross the country singin’ loud as I can
One of these days

But I won’t have trouble on my back
cuttin’ like the devil with a choppin’ axe,
Got to shake it off my back, one of these days

c- 1972 Earl Montgomery

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