Fun or Responsible?

I usually just spend my weekends at home. Maybe a grocery trip or some other errands. Which is why I'm particularly annoyed that somehow two things I would very much like to go to just happen to be tomorrow.

One one hand is the national book festival - which sounds like book nerd heaven to me. A whole festival of books, oh joy! I've never gone, mostly because I never seem to know that it's happening until it's over. Every year I vow that next year will be the year. This year, not only does the general idea of a festival of books draw me in, but there are even several authors I'd love to see and get books signed by. Ree Drummond, the pioneer woman and blogger extraordinaire! Katherine Paterson, whose Bridge to Teribithia and Jacob Have I Loved made my adolescent heart ache like no other books before had. And best of all, Suzanne Collins, of Hunger Games magnificence and my latest literary love. Plus, what better place to spend on of the last Summeresque days of the year than outside on the National Mall?

On the other hand, tomorrow also happens to be the first meeting of WeLEAD,  the women in politics training program I applied to and was accepted by last spring. I was very excited then, but now I think it was more that I was excited to be getting into something than the actual program. Plus, now that we've pretty much decided that we aren't staying in DC past graduation unless one of us ends up with a fantastic opportunity here, politics and networking are suddenly substantially less appealing. Honestly, I don't really want to go, but I already committed, it would be good to go the first one and meet everyone and I'm only allowed to miss one without being kicked out and it seems silly to voluntarily use my one shot up at the beginning. Besides, like so many things, odds are once I just go and get started, I'll think it's just wonderful and be so glad I went.

Which is all fine and good, but at the moment I not only don't want to go, I'd much rather go do something else. I really hope I wake up tomorrow with remarkable clarity, because right now my attempts to talk myself into either option are not going so well.