State of the State of the Cat
May. 8th, 2012 05:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
catsittingstillSo I've spent the last three days eyeball-deep in Reaper, cutting and pasting suggestion tracks that my Wonderful Collaborator sent me to send my suggestions back. This has been wonderful fun--all the fun and interest of playing with sound tracks; none of the fiddly little grumpiness of getting every transition perfect. But it has kept me busy.
And in the meantime all the regular commitments I made with my life are still active. I am giving a concert at the League of Women Voters Annual Meeting (kind of out of the usual for us, but people seemed to like the idea, so...) so I'm practicing for that. I promised to roast a chicken so that we would not end up with buckets of leftover KFC this time; it may have been poor judgment to combine that and a concert on the same day. My schedule this week does not particularly encourage me to take today off as regards either the album or the proofreading I promised. I promised to write a song for the League (which ended up being not so much about the League but about the Convention at Seneca Falls in 1848 that is widely seen as the start of the women's suffrage movement) and that's done but I'm hoping I know it well enough to perform it because I only wrote it a week ago.
And now Mossy Creek Network is trying to get started up again, and urgently wants to meet this week, and I had to tell them "not Tuesday" (the day of the LWV meeting. ) Because I need to get my mixing done and I need to do my proofreading and I want to fit at least one more practice in, because last night's, while it went well considering I had been working from 8 am to 9 pm with breaks for lunch and dinner(it was my day to work 3 hours in the morning at the Rural Clinic, which kind of added to the load) did not go as well as I would like for the day before a concert.
And I got a book called "Just One Thing" about things to meditate on (sort of) and this week's thing is "Be On Your Side" meaning take care of yourself: treat yourself with kindness and compassion. I don't think I generally have a problem with that, but I kind of wonder if I should start pushing back against all these worthy organizations I would like to support and get some of my time back from them, at least until July.
And in the meantime all the regular commitments I made with my life are still active. I am giving a concert at the League of Women Voters Annual Meeting (kind of out of the usual for us, but people seemed to like the idea, so...) so I'm practicing for that. I promised to roast a chicken so that we would not end up with buckets of leftover KFC this time; it may have been poor judgment to combine that and a concert on the same day. My schedule this week does not particularly encourage me to take today off as regards either the album or the proofreading I promised. I promised to write a song for the League (which ended up being not so much about the League but about the Convention at Seneca Falls in 1848 that is widely seen as the start of the women's suffrage movement) and that's done but I'm hoping I know it well enough to perform it because I only wrote it a week ago.
And now Mossy Creek Network is trying to get started up again, and urgently wants to meet this week, and I had to tell them "not Tuesday" (the day of the LWV meeting. ) Because I need to get my mixing done and I need to do my proofreading and I want to fit at least one more practice in, because last night's, while it went well considering I had been working from 8 am to 9 pm with breaks for lunch and dinner(it was my day to work 3 hours in the morning at the Rural Clinic, which kind of added to the load) did not go as well as I would like for the day before a concert.
And I got a book called "Just One Thing" about things to meditate on (sort of) and this week's thing is "Be On Your Side" meaning take care of yourself: treat yourself with kindness and compassion. I don't think I generally have a problem with that, but I kind of wonder if I should start pushing back against all these worthy organizations I would like to support and get some of my time back from them, at least until July.
