Sleep, please
Man, I can not sleep. I tried. I went to bed around 10 PM, and listened to some Mahler 3 for a bit. I was tired then, but now I am wide awake. I have a million things racing through my mind right now, and most of it is stuff I can not take care of for a while, so I wish it would get the heck out of my head. Here is a list of things I must work on this week:
- Summer TubaBand PR to the band directors
- July 4th Brass Band
- TYBB/TYBE Concert PR, Personnel, Music, tickets, percussion
- TYBB Listening help
- Summer lesson schedule
- Final week at NCCU- Juries and Grades
- Pay bills:Â It is insurance month
- Get motorcycle license renewed
Some of this stuff is easy and fast to do. Some of it is a major work project. This month will be similar to the last few. I feel like my head is being held underwater and I rarely get a chance to breathe. most of the pressure I bring on myself in the form of not wanting to screw any logistical planning. I have to train myself to better organized and more on top of things.
So, the weekend in review. I was in Wilmington, NC playing a concert with the symphony (WSO) down there. This is the third concert I have played with them this season, and I had fun times doing the gig. its really easy. Spend the night and afternoon hanging out in Wilmington, do a rehearsal and a concert. I like the one rehearsal and a concert gigs. not knowing anything about the orchestra when I took these gigs, I was amazed to find out that the WSO concerts are very well attended. Full house every time.
I play the Wilmington run outs with North Carolina Symphony quite often, it seems, and they are well attended as well. What I am guessing, is that there is market for orchestral music there, but I wonder if it is enough to support something more than once a month. The WSO plays a concert a month, an throw in a few NCS concerts here and there throughout the season, and I bet they get their fill. So, the WSO announced their upcoming season this weekend, and they have a sweet looking brochure. Why is it sweet, you ask? Because my photogenic tuba playing mug is on it. Really. I play their once and get caught on camera doing it and straight into the advertisements. Shoes what a large shiny object can do.
Playing the gig allows me the opportunity to do two things that I don’t get to do enough. One is watch TV, which I do not do because I don’t have TV. The other is to just think, and work shit out in my head. i drove around a bit, and explored Wrightsville Beach, which is a kickass little town on the ocean. If I could, I would live there year round. If the WSO would pay a tuba player $20 grand, I would do it. For Sure. that’s all it would take.
Yeah, well, that’s about it for the weekend. Unfortunately, I didn’t do much work on other things that are in the pipeline to get done, which is now causing the minor insomnia, which will go away as soon as I get into a project, but I will be too tired to complete. Damn it.
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