Well, dear readers, may I just point out that August is half over. Yes, you heard it here, dear readers, August is half over, which means September is around the corner, which means 2010 is around the corner. Thus far, this year has been fleet of foot, like a gazelle reciting the Gettysburg Address. I can recite the Gettysburg Address right now:
Moishe Gettysburg
1453 Flanken Avenue
Los Angeles, California 90063
I had an emotionally exhausting day yesterday. I got up early and did the three-mile jog – that was exhausting. I then had a long but productive work session. Then plans changed, which led to the emotionally exhausting part of the day, which led to a very long and very annoying telephonic call, and when that was done I was, to put it mildly, emotionally exhausted. I was then recruited by my neighbor Ellen, who is also a long-time friend, to come over and play a game with two of her gal pals. I had some work to attend to, but I went over with the intention of just watching and learning how the game was played – a cross between Boggle and Scrabble – can’t remember the actual name, but it involves Scrabble-like tiles and each player takes twenty-one tiles and then makes words out of them in Scrabble-like fashion, with the biggest change that you can go backwards with your words. After you’ve used all twenty-one of your tiles you say a word (can’t remember the word) and then each player has to draw another tile. You continue to make words and use letters and draw tiles until all the tiles are drawn and the first player to have used all their tiles is the winner. After they finished the game they were playing they insisted I play one game, which I did not want to do, but in the end, I played. And I won the game in seven minutes. As I was walking home I got a call from another friend who’d been stood up by some friend of hers, so she asked if I’d come over and I thought that would probably be a healthy and good thing to do, so I did it. We ended up having a really interesting chat, then we met a gal pal of hers at the Eclectic Café. I took my leave and came home and had another telephonic conversation, then it was time to write these here notes.
I never did have time to finish The Ninth Gate, but I definitely will today. And that was my day and evening, and I’m hoping for no more emotionally exhausting days, just fun ones, fruitful ones, creative ones, and financially sound ones, not necessarily in that order.
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because frankly I am emotionally exhausted and cannot write another word in this section of the notes – that, and the fact that I’ve recited the Gettysburg Address.
Today will be a very busy day for me. I will get up early, do the long jog, and then I have to write the liner notes for our next release and cannot stop until they are finished. Then I have to listen to the master to make sure I’m happy with it and do any tweaks I deem necessary. Then we can put that one to bed and I’m hoping that the mastering guy can move directly to the project that comes next, which requires some mixing and editing, but which shouldn’t be too difficult. Not sure what I’ll be doing after all that is finished – I have an invite to go to a club, but I’m not sure I’ll be up for that.
Tomorrow I have some weird reunion to go to. This is put together by a guy who is a little obsessed with my sixth grade class – we’ve had two of these already. I may or may not go, but they are interesting and there are a couple of folks I don’t mind seeing. We shall see. If I go, I won’t stay long, because I’ve got to get all these packages addressed and postaged so we can ship out CDs when they arrive, most likely on Wednesday. I’ll either have to do it all myself, or I may have someone who can come help, which would be very helpful. It’s really hard to do these two a month releases all by my lonesome and I’m really going to have to get serious and rectify that situation. There are a lot of projects coming up, not to mention all the other stuff I’m in the midst of, including the upcoming trip to New York and starting to cast the long musical.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, do the long jog, write liner notes, listen to the new master, and perhaps go to a club. Today’s topic of discussion: What is your favorite period, history-wise, and why? Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst we all recite the Gettysburg Address.