I heard back!

Hi there,

I got an e-mail yesterday from the school saying that they'd like to schedule another meeting with me to talk about my experiences there (presenting and touring) and to talk more about "possibly working together." Looks like this meeting will happen when I return from conference. Probably good timing. I will be all refreshed and ready to go--- although extremely tired but in a good way.

yayayay!

PS. I have to rant about something.

Why do people spell "ridiculous" wrong all of the time? I often see it as "rediculous." Why do they do that? that drives me nuts.

Thursday

Its Thursday and I haven't heard back yet. The end of the week is rapidly approaching, just saying.

Its another rainy dreary day. All I have to do today is go over my presentation and teach a piano lesson-- which does involve driving down to Gilroy. I had hoped to bring Peaches, but its too rainy. Oh well.

Hallelu!

The kitchen situation has been resolved. I shall be making my coffee in the kitchen tomorrow morning!

Thanks to Lizzie for basically solving the mystery!!

Wednesday

Clean house. Clean Clothes. Even Clean Dog.

I gave her a bath today and now she smells like doggy roses. Simply delightful. We are getting along famously.

The internet went down today and I managed to fix it all by myself. This is no small personal feat as the panic room (the closet that stores all of the TV, internet, gaming devices) is enough to make me panic. Go me.

Getting ready for conference next week! I can't believe its already that time of year. I am looking forward to seeing my friends- especially the ones that I only get to see at conferences once or twice a year.

Tuesday

Yesterday I found out that one of my clients in my afternoon session is 97 years old. She is super sassy and energetic during the session. Fantastic.

My sessions went really well yesterday AND I picked up my score-- looks fantastic. Today I will give it a good listen and follow along- I didn't do that last night. I played through it instead. AND I have to pick up my keyboard manual and look at how to program patches so that I can just switch through sounds easily. I've never done that before and I'm not quite sure how to do it. So if I can't find the answer, then I can reach out to someone I know that has the same keyboard. maybe he will know how to do it.

On my way back from picking up my score I got a hankering for this tiny little mexican restaurant. So I called my friend and asked her to join me for dinner. It was delicious! I hadn't been there in years And I hadn't seen my friend in a few good weeks. It was nice to catch up.

Today I am coming down to Gilroy for lunch and to have my cousin look at my car again. My lift gate is doing something strange. Run a few errands. Pick up my keyboard manual. and then head back up... I have one load of laundry, some documentation, and some reading to do up here. loving my down time

Monday Monday

I made my coffee in the dining room today. Still no luck with the kitchen outlets. I will attempt again after my sessions today.

Obviously there is little to do around here except update my blog and make coffee in the dining room.

This pace of work/no work feels like my last semester at ASU (without the 72 degree winter pool days). I kind of dig it. It gives me time to work on my stuff and take naps. Although somedays (like this morning) it feels a little hard to get excited about working. But I know that once I get there and get going that everything is going to be great and that I always enjoy what I do. Its the getting there. That's my process.

Kitchen Update

I can't seem to figure out how to get the kitchen back in full working order. I guess I am not doing it right.

I finished most everything on my list except for laundry. That will have to wait until tomorrow when I am done with my Monday sessions. Oh yeah, I am working tomorrow. I had forgotten about that until the early afternoon. The nice thing about housesitting is that I only have to drive 20 minutes to get to work tomorrow. I can sleep in! I did my session plans... but I also managed to get through my presentation for conference and trim it up. Its almost ready to send to Maggie for feedback.

Tomorrow I am also going to pick up my score. I am playing in another children's theater show at the end of April. They are doing a production of Starmites and I can hardly contain my excitement. The show was written in the 80s which means that I get to use various Synthesizer sounds on my keyboard. I got my recording tonight and I am picking up my score to start picking out synth sounds. The show has 2 keyboards... so its hard to tell from just the recording which part I will be playing and which sounds I will need... which is why I need my score. I am looking forward to giving it a good listen and following along in my score. I am fairly certain that there is a need for electric piano and perhaps a harp sound. I can't wait. Being in the pit for this show (and the show I did in February) makes me feel like I have more of a social life than I actually do. It makes me very happy and its fun to make music in this way-- its different from the usual.

Tomorrow also marks the beginning of the week which means I should hear from the school this week. I also managed to brainstorm a little bit about putting a program together for the school... just in case.

Time to get ready for bed!