About to watch a Danish thriller - film, not TV. And then I have to begin thinking about an unpleasant e-mail I will eventually have to write - figuring out when and figuring out how. This has to do with the kid I worked with for the last year and a half and the completely odd behavior of her parents, which caused me to need a break from that amusement park ride. I'm sure they've somehow, to their child at least, made me the bad guy, but I've done nothing but try to be helpful to both daughter and family and have given his child not only the gift of a great act, but seventeen shows in a row where I have given her material to challenge and grow.
Today, they did her act in Palm Springs. According to the relentless Facebook posts of her mother, it played well. But since I have not received an apology or an explanation for their behavior (which basically was trying to do a 180 on someone who's been very good to them - it was baffling, and people who know both parties, after having been read the series of e-mails, all felt that I was being treated weirdly, poorly, and not being told the truth), I'm afraid that they've taken their last visit to land that is the title of the show, at least in its present incarnation. I control my writing, I control the title of the show, I control half the arrangements in the show, and I control the two songs of mine that she does - all of which I will not allow them to do. I know we were talking about New York, but I'm not letting it be done there without my supervision, and I don't feel like supervising anything right now. So, at some point soon, I'm going to have to write a very long e-mail, all thanks to off-putting behavior (at one point the mother said to me, "You're putting us on the defensive," to which I replied, "I'm putting YOU on the defensive?" Hilarious. So, I'm pondering exactly what the e-mail will say, and how best to phrase it while remaining completely calm.
