don't make me come back there

the last couple days have been productive, but not without their frustration. i'll say and say again that i love what i do. i love being able to help people, and i love being able to make a living.

as of the last couple days though, it's seemed as if every project i'm involved in got simultaneously unsettled and every hour my phone was ringing off the hook. ringing early in the morning, and ringing late into the night. every e-mail a new problem, every text message a new question, every phone call a new complaint. it's getting so whenever i hear the phone i just want to yell at it and say "what the [your choice] do you want now? i'm empty!"

it's starting to blend together and sound like the gaggled murmurings of a backseat full of little fidgeting children. meanwhile, i'm the aggravated parent in the front seat clinging to the steering wheel with that one famous forehead vein throbbing as i threaten, "all of you better shut up right now or i will turn this car around and go home! don't make me come back there!"

of course whenever i have to complain about my business, i think of what kipper jones once told me (really nice guy i got to talk to once who co-wrote a lot of the hits on brandy's first album). he said "i know how it feels when your phone is ringing off the hook, and i know what it feels when that phone stops ringing."

it's a stark contrast. i mean, right now, i'd like to duct tape everybody's mouth shut 'cause there's just more going on right now than i've been able to comfortably float through. and yet, if there wasn't so much going on, i'd have to spend more hours working my $8/hr fallback job and i'd be making less money even when it's at its best.

the upshot is, i could barely get to sleep last night entertaining myself with logo ideas for my dream website called SockYouInYoFace.com. and in this dream, whenever somebody pissed you off? you wouldn't have to argue with them or listen to reason or hear out their side of the story. no, you could just go report them to SockYouInYoFace.com, pay a nominal fee of course, and someone would promptly show up to the person's house within 1-2 business days and sock them in they face.

i happen to think it's an ingenious idea. don't you?