Need caffeine....

Need caffeine now

One day early and Megan and I completed part one of our festival research project. We gathered roughly 75 summer festivals (June-September) in Georgia, plus 10 or so in neighboring "drive cities" (Knoxville, Chatanooga, Birmingham, Greenville). It feels wonderful to complete a project, especially when it is ready before schedule! I also found a last minute festival worthy of attending: Woodstock Art & Wine Festival .

Today was a tough day. Everything was fine during the drive to work and clocking in, and then....the cubicle. Once I sat down in my comfy chair, my cubicle was beckoning me to sleep behind his protective walls. After about an hour and a half of sleep deprivation, I succumbed to walking to Starbucks for a $5 coffee. That iced skinny caramel machiato was 100% worth it! After a few sips, my research was easier, more interesting, and lead to productive findings. Oh, the wonders of caffeine. Not exactly great for you, but lord knows it will kick your butt until you are awake! Apparently I am not the only person whose butt needs coffee during the first half of the workday. There was 15 other people with the same caffeine withdrawal, and they all happened to have made it inside the Starbucks' door a second before meI. It took a whopping 30 minutes to get to Starbucks, pay five dollars, and get back to my desk. Regardless of the hassle, I was so happy to have my coffee!

Once the caffeine set in, it was lunch time before I even knew it. Today Megan and I ventured out to Colony Square. I had the ever-loved bimbimbop at Jaffa Cafe. The bimbimbop is a plate of brown rice, chicken or tofu, eggs, cucumbers, sprouts, lettuce, and your choice of spicy or tzatziki sauce. Mix everything like a salad and you have a delicious lunch which is a special meal served only three times a week. Note: if a restaurant serves a particular dish only a few days out of the week --get it! Note: if everyone else in line, on those specified days, orders the bimbimbop --get it! It was a delicious treat for the week.

With only a few hours left in the day, I started back on the media clips and began to digitally log them. The pile gets smaller and smaller everyday, and it is nice to see how many times the High is mentioned in various publications and medias outlets! I had a stack of 20 AJC newspapers to look through and that was a project in-and-of itself. All the articles are not clearly marked (i.e. picture of a featured artist/work, have the High mentioned in the title), and can be as simple as a two liner about "what to do this week" along with 20 other suggestions. My hands were black from handling those newspaper, but thankfully I had anti-bacterial at my desk. And for that, I am sorry to everyone who sits near me. I apologize for the smell of concentrated alcohol you smelt every 5 minutes.

Tomorrow and this weekend should be a fun and interesting time! A little heads up: Michael Shapiro (the High's director), fishies, beer, friends and more beer. Weeeee.