Can't have everything

[cjsmith]

I got an invitation to call at an event in 2010 where I would have loved to call, absolutely loved it. But it's in the middle of the school year, in the middle of a quarter, and I just couldn't come up with any sane way I could commit to it. Just now I sent my "regrets" e-mail.

The Japan calling gig coming up, booked in something like 2006, is hosing me badly enough, even though it's only knocking out finals week of winter quarter and the first day of classes of spring. Even that, I never would have booked if I'd known what I'd be doing now. It's a major mess. But technically I don't have to get worse grades for being absent during a final, as long as I can make arrangements to take the exam at another time. In the middle of the quarter, there's no possible way I wouldn't lose big. Except maybe taking that quarter off.

And y'know, if I don't get into vet school first try, I could take that quarter off if I wanted to. But I can't count on anything.

*sigh*

I really wanted to go. :-(

Comments

[billeyler.livejournal.com]

I'm with you there. I've turned down and will have to continue to turn down engagements that conflict with this nutso weekend and night work schedule I randomly have.

Like you, the frustration of it is that the engagements are several years down the line and trying to guess what future conflicts there will be is just crazy.

Sorry you had to nix that one!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

The guesswork about the future is indeed frustrating. I know, intellectually, that I could have made no other decision than this. But I also know that if May 2010 comes and I could have gone, I'll kick myself into next week. Gah!