Well, dear readers, I didn’t think I had all that much to do this week but, as it turns out, I do have all that much to do this week. How did that happen? Here I thought I was going to have a nice relaxing week and yet I have no time to have a nice relaxing week. For example, I thought I would have a nice relaxing day yesterday, and I had anything but a nice relaxing day yesterday. I did get a good night’s sleep, but from the time I awoke until late in the evening, I wrote, I proofed all seven short stories, I did errands, set several appointments and meetings, and I don’t think I sat on my couch like so much fish for more than a half-hour the entire time. I didn’t watch a DVD or three, I didn’t play a CD or three, I just sat in front of my laptap for hours on end and now my eyes are weary and I have about as much energy as a gazelle on Quaaludes. I am written out and yet I must write these here notes. If only I could write them tomorrow after a good night’s sleep, but since I have to wake up very early and get ready to do the musical theater workshop (MTW), I wouldn’t have time, and besides we do have our late-night denizens who do enjoy reading the new notes at the stroke of midnight. Therefore, I shall mush on, but I cannot promise to be pithy and excruciatingly arch. Isn’t that exciting? Isn’t that just too too?
I received an interesting telephonic call asking me if I wanted to do two days’ worth of one-on-one seminars for ASCAP in mid-April. It’s a huge conference for songwriters from around the world, and one request they’d gotten quite a few times was for a recording company executive for musical theater recordings. I said I’d be happy to do it, and so I’m doing it. I’m thinking I’ll have a good time, and it’s right in Hollywood at the Renaissance Hotel, plus I get to go to some big private party, too.
I’m still trying to book this cabaret series and it’s proving more difficult than I thought it would. We have ten dates to fill, and yet everyone wants the same two dates. Unbelievable. Right now, we have Linda Purl and Jason Graae, although I’m concerned about the latter because he keeps getting offered gigs (he was set to open the series, but got a production of Guys and Dolls). And because the money is a little on the low side (decent – what they paid at Saddleback last year), some people are being reticent, oh, yes, they are being reticent. However, I shall be more than happy to apply a little pressure and do a little guilt-tripping, if need be.
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because shortly I must be on my merry way and I do need my beauty sleep.
If you haven’t done so, don’t forget to preorder the latest Kritzerland releases – it still sort of weirds me out that there are some hainsies/kimlets who have not ordered one Kritzerland CD – I just find that very odd indeed. I do understand if there are financial issues, of course, but I don’t think that’s the case with all hainsies/kimlets, so I guess I shall continue to be baffled. Of course, to all who have ordered and who intend to order, I am eternally grateful.
Today, after the musical theater workshop (MTW), I’m going to try to figure out a good order for the seven short stories. I was looking through quite a few short story volumes in my collection, and was beginning to get worried that seven weren’t enough. Having just read them all, seven certainly feels right. But, a lot of volumes have between twelve and nineteen stories. However, I then found five different short story collections that have exactly seven stories in them, so that made me feel better. I even found one with six stories, and one with three long stories. I still think the book will have around two hundred pages, which is longer than several of the short story collections I own. Finding the order is not going to be easy, I don’t think. I know which story will end the collection, but I’m now waffling on which will begin it – very tricky.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, write some pages of the musical, I must attend to several important errands, I must make a first pass at an order for the short stories, and I must eat something yummilicious but reasonable. Today’s topic of discussion: What are your favorite short stories? Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we? We shall. And now, I shall have to try to come up with a title for these here notes, since nothing is jumping out at me, title-wise.