Are You Kamphey Approved?

It’s breezy at best.  Miami has turned to the Winter, a nice crisp air with relatively low humidity for a southern city.  In the shade I need pants but in the sun it’s warm like an open oven.  I make my way downtown to grab some free internet and deposit my paychecks.  The ATM won’t accept any more cash and my internet search finds me at Starbucks paying four dollars for two hours of internet.   Oh well it’s fast. I start downloading a hundred podcasts. I have to stock up, this week is going to be all about resting.

Last week I worked both Arcadia Theater and Studio B and I was on duty. Which means I would finish in Arcadia with the shows and change over then go to Studio B to clean up what I could.  Thankfully a couple days the boys over there helped me out and did the little things well.   I could just grab the garbage and run.   I didn’t have to do any major things.  The only downside was waking up at 8am to do Ice Makes and then staying up till well past midnight working in Arcadia.  In the end it’s not that bad.  I know it could be worse and it has been.  If that was what work would be like every week I could get used to it.

I was told before I got hired that I would be doing 70 hour weeks.  In reality that is the worst week ever and it’s happened.  Actually I’ve done 80 to 90 hour weeks, maxing out my available hours.  It’s not pretty but I’ve survived and many people do that week in and week out.  I’m lucky that those are my worst weeks and not normal.

my back and neck are tense. I have to stretch more.  The one night I stretched before a show I felt good.  Now I’m getting lazy and not stretching.  So back to the gym I go, the girlfriend isn’t around so I have time.  I know I’ll have more energy when I go to the gym so, Why Not?

I’m a citizen of the Why Not? Nation now.  Royal Caribbean has changed their amazing slogan of “Get Out There” to the amazing lackluster slogan of “Why Not?”   They’ve gone on to ban the use of song “Lust for Life” which used to be the song in their commercials.  Now it’s more like “Ambivalence towards this thing we call life whatever it may be.”