Today is Monday, which is technically the beginning of the week for most “normal” people. For us musicians there is no beginning of the week, nor an end of the week…the week just continues on and on.

Well, except I’m free today until late afternoon. We finished the Phantom of the Opera run last night, and I am sad to be done. It was a fun show to play and the most fun I’ve had in the pit! I know that many “serious” classical musicians like to hate on Phantom, and like to hate on playing shows, but the truth is that it’s an amazing paying gig here, and I have learned I quite enjoy doing it. Each time you play the same thing, yes, but you try to do better every time.

Today I’ve cleaned the bathrooms and done some vacuuming already (much to the chagrin of my dog Mackenzie—she is only afraid of one thing and that is the vacuum cleaner) and soon I shall do some exercise before starting on my practicing. I also have to run some errands with Louie and then I have about 3 hours of teaching. Not a bad day, really!

This week is the calm between the storms, as next week I’m playing Book of Mormon. It’s been a great month as far as opportunities go, and don’t think I’m not thankful for the work. I feel like it’s taking me a long time to get established here, but as I’ve said recently, I’m starting to feel comfortable enough knowing that if I keep playing well and showing up, people will keep calling me. And that the students will keep coming…hopefully this is all true and writing it here doesn’t change everything

Have a great Monday, readers!