For almost the first time since I started working 2 months ago? TGIF.

There's the possibility that the weekend will be full of fun and frolic. There's an antique show that the R.C. and I might go to tomorrow. Only $10 admission to spend hours coveting beautiful things we can't afford and would have no place to put if we could!

One of these days--not this weekend, but one of these days--I really want to go see the Inspiring Impressionism exhibit at the art museum. I'm a big fan of the Impressionists, so I think I'd really enjoy this show.

Not this weekend, though, not Sunday, because Sunday is my day of sloth (sometimes with a dab of housekeeping and this weekend with major amounts of laundry if I don't get started on it tonight), Then I have to allow for the usual time wasted spent doing free-lance work. For Buehler this time, printing some more labels.*

Closer to home, I'm happy to report that Gidget is back to her old self today. We're putting together, as she described it, a "world-class" marketing plan.

And yet, as I'm coming to understand is standard around here, one of the franchisees, the Argonuts, someone who--wait for it--had a great local internet marketing campaign and who decided he didn't like the people who managed it and so he cancelled it? Is complaining about how he doesn't have a good local internet marketing campaign because Gidget doesn't have "a plan" or something. Also, he's going to run his own local campaign, so there.

Also, he's mad because we won't spend 8 hours making him a report benchmarking his location against those of the other Argonuts. As if a thousand dollar a month location in San Francisco could be meaningfully compared to a $200 location in Kansas. Or as if a campaign that's been running for three years can sensibly be compared to a location that's only been open for a month.

Another Argonut is bitching about--well, I'm not sure what his problem is. He manages his own campaign because he's a control freak--so success or failure is all on his own head. And yet, he's calling two or three times a week to complain. (Now that I think about that, maybe I'll ask Gidget exactly what his problem is.)

So, you know, no matter how sock off-knocking the plan she comes up with is? There will be complaints.

Mostly I'm hoping we can just hang in there until May. May starts the busy season and with a little luck, these guys will find other things to do with their time.

Also, Vela told her that there's no real question of Jason firing her. He's just tired of hearing the Argonuts bitching all the time. (He could solve that by either not answering his phone, or by going to the five people responsible for daily management of the Nuts' problems and asking them whyinthehell they're not doing their jobs.)

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* So maybe 15 minutes, but still.

I cherish my weekends. After 10 months of, yes, worrying about getting a job but more importantly, having 24 hours a day to do whatever I wanted, I'm finding it very difficult to get to everything in only two days a week. It's not yet late enough in the year for my brain to accept that "after work" is yet still early enough in the day to go out and accomplish anything.