Well, dear readers, I’m trying to figure out when exactly I’m going to actually get a good night’s beauty sleep, but I think the very first opportunity for that may not be until next Saturday. I may start writing the notes early and scheduling them in an effort to get to bed earlier. The point being that I must be up by nine-thirty so I can be at this singing contest thing by eleven and ready to go.
Yesterday was a funny old day. I got no more than five hours of sleep thanks to what sounded like a hurricane – fierce winds for three hours. I finally fell back asleep around six and slept until eight-thirty. Things were a mess in the yard and also everywhere else I went in the City of Studio. Once up, I answered e-mails then went and had some matzoh brei and a bagel to tide me over until dinner. I sat for quite a while, proofing away. Then I picked up a couple of packages, then came home.
I began writing a new song – just sketching the bones of it, but having fun. We’ll see how it comes out. I finished writing the commentary for the Kritzerland show, so that’s out of the way now. Then Sami and her mother came over and we went to Casa Vega for a book finishing celebration dinner. I had one taco and one cheese enchilada. Then we came back and began our work session. First I played Sami the new song about a compulsive snacker – she loved it and can now learn it. I may have her do it in the April Kritzerland show. Then she read through all the monologues written thus far and she’s starting to understand the rhythms I write in – the more we run them, the more at ease she gets. She sang through most of the songs, too. I let her hear a teeny bit of what I’d started working on and she loved the idea of it – a girl having a nervous breakdown getting ready for her first prom. With all the songs and monologues so far, we probably have thirty minutes of show, maybe a bit more. Once we get up to forty, then we’re a little under halfway home, as I want the actual show to run between eighty and eighty-five minutes.
After, I had to go pick up the first proofer’s manuscript. She professed to really like the book and felt it was a real page-turner, so that was very nice to hear. I glanced at her stuff and she found some errors in the first 100 pages that I hadn’t caught, which is why I have three people proofing, always. At that point, it was about seven-thirty. And I must tell you, I honestly don’t remember how I spent the rest of the evening. Isn’t that funny? I didn’t watch anything. I had a couple of telephonic conversations and I did do a little work on the computer. But somehow the evening just passed quickly.
Today, I’ll be up by nine-thirty and then I’m judging a singing contest from eleven to two-thirty. After that, I have to come right home and have a work session with John Boswell. Once that’s done, I have to prep the eBlast for tomorrow’s CD announcement. And I’m sure I’ll eat something at some point. And I’ll try to get the notes done early and scheduled, since I have to be up at six in the morning to announce.
Tomorrow, I’ll be up at six in the morning to announce the new Kritzerland release. Then we have our Inside Out rehearsal. The rest of the week is Inside Out rehearsals, Kritzerland rehearsals, meetings and meals, a book fair, a stumble through, and then sound check and show.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, judge a singing contest, I must have a work session, I must eat, I must prep an eBlast and relax. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s free-for-all day, the day in which you dear readers get to make with the topics and we all get to post about them. So, let’s have loads of lovely topics and loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, where I will hopefully not be awakened by the winds of January.