Good morning, all! At 4am I was wide awake.
Now I am certain there are several reasons for this:
1. Tonight we move the clocks up, so it's really 5am and the universe is giving me a head start
2. I cannot sleep because of the stress, anxiety and pressure of the past week
3. The fact that I have had a stiff neck and cannot turn my head since Thursday is making sleep uncomfortable
I'll take No 1, Alex, so I got out of bed washed up, found my neck brace from my 1999 cervical disc surgery and washed the covering, made myself some coffee, and turned all the clocks in my apartment up one hour. It is now officially 5:38am in this apartment, and I have work to do. I think this morning I will start adapting Russell Bennett's orchestration for "I Won't Dance" from the London show The Three Sisters to fit the orchesration of ROBERTA for "I Won't Dance" written for the film version. It's a long number and I suspect it will take me a good part of the week to accomplish.
At some point, too, this morning, I will head down to Toyland, check on things and begin the inventory to be sent to California since the rubble of Toyland is leaving Manhattan. That was one of my emails yesterday: prepare the office to evacuate; all materials on my work, and that of several excellent colleagues, for the past tn years is being taken over by the Cambridge office.