Thinking

[unbound_spirit]

-My younger cousin Jonny starts his Master's degree in Astro Physics this fall at Cambridge University!  Maybe he'll get to attend some Hawking lectures!  Maybe I'll have to go visit him.

-Last Saturday I was hanging out in Chelsea with a friend of mine from college and some of her friends from MIT.  They all work in the stock market or in these high-pressure finance jobs.  And after work and on weekends they spend their time getting drunk at places that resemble college bars.  One of them got on my case about not drinking.  He was like, "If you were one of my friends from work or something, and I knew you didn't drink, I would never invite you to come hang out with me," as if that would be such a horrible thing.  As if I should want to spend my free time hanging out with drunk guys in pseudo-college bars, which are environments I never cared for, even back in college.  Um, no, sorry, I actually have a life.

That also got me thinking about somthing someone on here posted from Donald Trump, and how he said one secret to success is doing a job that you never want to take a vacation from.  My career as a musician is a job I never want to take a vacation from.  I don't feel the need to get drunk and escape from life.  Well, okay, I do sometimes, but for other reasons, not work related.  I never want to retire.  I'm always thinking about work because I love it.  I'm an artist and I always have an inclination to do art. 

-I'm lining up a lot of auditions...

Comments

[pinkstiletto510.livejournal.com]

i'm glad to know that youre not into that whole drinking to get drunk thing either.... i am one of the only 4 kids in my Performance class of 25 that hasnt gone out and gotten drunk...many of them like to do this after shows even when they have matinees in the morning...drives me insane. I really dont care if they do it on their own time but when I have to act with them while they're all hung-over...yeah not fun

[unbound-spirit.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I hear you on that one. I found out a while ago that several people in my opera department did cocaine, and I didn't find it too comforting to know that I'm trusting those people to pull off difficult performances with me.

After I turned 21 I tried to get into drinking because everyone around me seemed to enjoy it so much, but I just never seemed to get what was so great about it. Then a few times it became a thing of like, "Wow, something really horrible happened today, I think I'm going to try to drink a lot because that seems to be what other people do when horrible things happen," but then I would feel very temporarily better and then ten times as horrible for days afterwards. (Yeah, I seem to have a pretty strong emotional reaction to alcohol.) So I just stopped. It wasn't worth it to me.

[george-marie.livejournal.com]

Why would an opera singer want to do cocaine? That just doesn't make any sense to me. Anyways I think it's pretty cool that you have the self-confidence to say no about that kind of stuff. Alcohol is a wierd thing I think. For me, I'd be depressed all day after a night out when I was younger. I think it actually impacts your brain chemistry and lowers certain levels of electrolytes.

So yeah, I am writing a piece for percussion and mezzo-soprano for a friend here at Iowa. Sometime next semester, look for a copy to come your way:). I'd appreciate the input.