SassyBlonde

It's amazing how volunteer jobs can snowball into full-time work if you're not careful. When I started working with this group, it was dribs and drabs here and there to help with print media and website maintenance, but it's grown into a full-time job managing their press and media relations. Not that I mind on most levels, but it's starting to feel a little constricting. Now I've actually had to postpone some vacation time to deal with some seriously flapping loose ends, and I'm wondering when this is going to pay off in terms of a little compensation, not to mention I feel like I'm one of the world's most boring people-- I spent half the night last night bitching to Red about this stuff.

Being a musician, as I've said before, is a study in compromises. When most of us get into this business, you hear things like "I could never stand to sit behind a desk." The reality to this statement is that as a musician, you are your own manager, accountant, secretary, and press agent, never mind daily things like keeping the house clean. You spend as much time at a desk as everyone else does in some fashion-- it's just that after that morning meeting you return to your office to practice instead of reworking last year's sales figures. I'll admit, I love the perks of being able to sleep until 10:30 like I did today and go shoe shopping when I want, but lately I've been spending more and more time staying up until 2 am plugging holes in the dam as well. I guess that's to be expected, since as any group grows its unseen workings become more complicated, but I just wish that maybe it could operate with a little more efficiency. Yeah, I know-- that's like asking a canary to deep-dive for fish.

At any rate, my vacation is coming to me today... there's homemade lemon ice cream in the freezer and I'll be making rum punch this afternoon per Jen's recommendation. And there's always wifi access from the hammock...