I gotta admit I was almost stumped there on how to squeeze in all the activities I had planned this week. But my grad school time management skills have not yet failed me. I figured out a way to go to almost every yoga class I wanted to, make up one of the two make up co-op shifts I owe before my vacation starts, pack for said vacation, stretch my remaining clean clothes until I have time to do laundry on Wednesday, fit in rehearsals with Lacy and two of the three open mics we wanted to do, a meet up with Tania about the video from Galapagos at my place Thursday morning and find some quality time with a friend I've been seeing. Indeed I might even have time to meet another friend for drinks before she moves to Florida next week and, god willing, train my cat to stop peeing on my couch (bought some Nature's Miracle no spray spray on the way to brunch after church this morning).
And on top of it all, I have time to still work a full time job and juggle two music projects. Regrettably, voice over is taking a break this week, but that's okay because I got another gig from the guy out in Oregon I've been voicing videos for and have finished that already. The two music projects are the Samurai film, for which I await instruction on the next round of revisions, and a mockup for a collaboration with Marie-Christine Giordano, the dancer whom I met at the bus stop a few months back who knew Lacy from their days at Martha Graham.
That's a fun project and it'll be a nice change from all the film work I've done lately. So far we've sat down at her studio, bounced around ideas and came up with a palette of sounds which I'm currently trying to creatively string together into something coherent. Little by little. It's coming along well and I'm really psyched for this project. I love working with dancers but I also love a project where I can come in early on in the process. More on this later.
I have an exciting week with Lacy coming up too. We're reconnecting with the open mic scene while she simultaneously scouts locations for some potential gigs. On Wednesday night at 7pm we hit Bar 82 in the E. Village and on Thursday we will try out a new one: Lucky Jack's on the LES. I'm psyched for both especially the new one. Later that night we will go see her friend Tom Tallitsch, a jazz musician she's worked with, at The Garage in the W. Village.
And all this is made more exciting by the fact, that after this Tuesday, I don't have to be back at work until the 3rd of August, a full 9 days off! My folks will be in town Friday and we will likely do a leisurely day in Brooklyn, potentially Botanical Gardens or something else outside…perhaps even the Intrepid museum, which I discovered I can get into free with my NY1 badge. Saturday we will head upstate for the Cousins by the Dozens family reunion. Then Sunday we drive to Virginia to see my sister's family, Monday it's to NC to see my other sister's family and laze around by the pool. Then Tuesday, I go see my brother in the mountains of NC, with a potential jam session still on the docket the last time I spoke with mon frère. Then, it's back to NC for at least one more full day of lazing by the pool. I know. It sounds like a lot of travel. But the pay off is I get to see everyone. But I am going to get sick of cars. I'll probably blog later on this week and as I'm traveling. For now, I'm going to sleep though because this crazy week I have planned starts tomorrow morning at 8am!
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