Good morning, all! I stayed up too late reading and I slept in. I'm having one of those god-what-will-I-do-with-so-little-work days anxieties. and I wasn't sure I wanted to get out of bed. However, while the work's here, I need to pay estimated taxes and life insurance, so I'm up.
I'll work on the EILEEN Act Three Opening sequence, and see how far I get today. And I'll pay my estimated taxes. Thank you all for the sympathy last night, but the Babes In Toyland job was the one that shut down in March, putting me and four colleagues out of work. Since then, the only work I've got is for the McGlinn estate and I've put all my clleagues to work on EILEEN. The problem is, with only one job, it's hard meeting expenses, and none of the usual small jobs that come in - a concert chart here, several charts for a recording - are not coming in: Brent Barrett made two inquiries about his Christmas album being totally reorchestrated for pops concerts, but I don't thnk he's happy wth the enormous costs; Liz Callaway asked me to expand a chart I had written for her last recording for 15 players, which she then canceled because she decided that increasing the number of strings was all it (wrong!) needed; Gregg Edelman made two inquiries about work and then stopped calling. Thank God for Encores! and Rob Berman, because WHERE'S CHARLEY? has been my only additional income so far this year.
So, we get up and keep going. Jeez, I sound like WAITING FOR GODOT.
Vibes to DRs cillaliz, TCB, and Nurse Jane!
