Good Gig

April 11, 2006 at 7:05 PM

Hello one and all!

Luckily, I am now feeling a tad better. Unfortunately, I did not recover in time for my gig. I felt that I played very badly at first (this may have had to do with the fact that I was 1. nervous 2. in pain, and 3. not warmed up due to a shortage of warm up rooms), but finished quite well. The people managing the dinner party were the most wonderful people I have ever worked for. I was greeted at the door by the host and his assistant. Before I had even walked through the door, they pushed my pay into my hands. They made me play for twice as long as agreed upon, but I was later compensated when I noticed the hefty sum I was paid (so much I almost walked back to return half of it). I was notified a month in advance, they were freindly and helpful and appreciative...
Don't you just love well-run gigs?

On other news, I calculated my remaining school-time and came to a depressing discovery- I won't be finishing until the second week of June, even though I started mid-August and only took four weeks off total during the school year. I'm hoping to consolidate that somewhat, otherwise I'll have little time to rest before summer camp.

And now, if any of you need to see something scary, go look at Sydney's last blog....

~natasha

From Sydney Menees
Posted on April 11, 2006 at 8:23 PM

Thanks a lot, Knot ;-)

Great about your gig! One time my quartet had to go to a gig where we were all outside in 20 degree weather...ugh. It was total chaos and of course, no one was outside.

From Colleen Russo
Posted on April 11, 2006 at 8:46 PM

hahaha syds latest blog... ;)

That's great about your gig! I'm sure you were still amazing at the beginning! :)

From Karin Lin
Posted on April 11, 2006 at 9:07 PM

How are you calculating remaining school-time? Are you homeschooled and have to spend a certain amount of time "in school" to meet state standards or something?

Glad you're feeling better. Keep up the recovery!

From Colleen Russo
Posted on April 11, 2006 at 10:00 PM

How long do you do school per day? I know your homeschooled ... but yeah do you have to meet a certain number of hours?! It seems like as long as you get all the work done....
Thats weird though, i go to public school and we start mid august and finish beginning of June, about the same as you, but homeschoolers accomplish SO much more!!! I guess you don't have to waste as many hours during the day..!!

From Karin Lin
Posted on April 11, 2006 at 10:11 PM

My husband and I plan to homeschool our kids. Natasha just got added to my list of "people to bug" for input and advice. :)

From Natasha Marsalli
Posted on April 11, 2006 at 10:09 PM

I'm technically doing a college-prep correspondance school, i.e. I do my work at home, and then send it away to be graded. The people also write the tests, send me the books, and write out daily plans for a 36 week curriculum. Unfortunately, it is a year-round course and I try to do it in one year, i.e. no breaks.

As I am on week 28-ish (behind on some subjects, ahead on others)...well...do the math. :-) Hopefully I can get ahead.

As to daily schedules, I usually start 8:00-8:30 and finish around 4:00 (not including homework, of course). However, each test for each of my courses (I have seven courses) takes an average of four hours, so finals and midterms weeks, I can be going as late as nine.

From Colleen Russo
Posted on April 11, 2006 at 10:27 PM

OKAY THAT IS INSANE!!!!!
four hours per course!?
And you have to work so long... you must be really smart though!!

From Natasha Marsalli
Posted on April 11, 2006 at 11:05 PM

*laughs hysterically*
More like insane by now...

From Colleen Russo
Posted on April 12, 2006 at 1:33 AM

No really though, you work yourself so hard! What seven courses do you take anyways?! Because youve got like Math, History, English, Language, and Science... as the main ones... then what others?!

And you're a genious.. but its funny because im watching the show "house" with my parents and im like "house is insane" and my dad goes, "well he's a genious and most geniouses are insane"
hehe.. so there ya go! ;)
just joking.. about the insane part, you're still a genious :)

From Linda Lerskier
Posted on April 12, 2006 at 6:11 PM

Heh, funny. One of my friends said something like that to me Colleen. Except they said, "Not all insane people are geniuses."

Guess they know me all too well. :)

From Linda Lerskier
Posted on April 14, 2006 at 2:16 PM

Scary is my middle name. Well title anyway. :) Check out my blog.

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