CELEBRITY UPDATE: ME

posted by James Reel

    In case you’re tired of reading the latest turn-of-the-screw stories about unfit actress moms and drunken TV-star drivers,, here’s a piece of my exciting life:
    Yesterday I stayed home, sickish. My wife transferred her cold to me, and on Monday I was afraid I’d be in for a couple of days of nastiness, but I seem to have fended off the worst of it by staying home yesterday (but still waking up at 5 a.m., and taking only a one-hour nap after lunch, and spending five hours compiling an index for a Missouri travel publication, a job that requires another two or three hours of toil today).
    Now I’m back, and today I have to 1) finish the aforementioned index, 2) record two narration scripts for the Arizona Friends of Chamber Music radio series, so we’ll have something to broadcast this Sunday afternoon, 3) write one of the aforementioned scripts, 4) interview Jennifer Lee Carrell about Shakespeare in the Wild West for a segment on KUAZ’s Arizona Spotlight, 5) look into either paying off a speeding ticket I got a week and a half ago zipping down the Catalina Highway after two nights of camping and hiking and NOT showering, or going to traffic survival school if I can fit it in before I leave for Switzerland in a week and a half, 6) take a nap, so I can stay up late when I 7) go to the UA production of Bus Stop tonight for a review I’ll write for next week’s Tucson Weekly. I guess I’d also better pay attention to my regular air shift between now and noon.
    I just don’t have time for bad parenting and drunk driving.