It’s been a busy couple of weeks for me. Not a huge amount of career-related stuff, I guess, but just general busyness. I got a temp gig that is going to last me for quite a few weeks, which is AWESOME as I was getting back to a slightly scary financial point and needed some consistent work. Once again, the universe helps me out. I really like the guys I’m working with and it’s a fun environment, if hectic, but the worst thing about it is they block practically every website that is fun/interesting/important. I can’t access my email, Facebook, Twitter or much else while I’m at work, except on my phone, and as I usually do most of my net-wasting time during the day it’s put a serious dampener on my sense of connectivity. In a way though, it’s kind of nice to escape the Facebook addiction – and as their policies get weirder and weirder, I start to wish I could stay connected to people in a different way. I just discovered Diaspora, which is a very cool Facebook-alternative, but it doesn’t exactly have the same wide appeal that FB does. However, I joined it (and I can access it at work!), so I encourage other people to try it out.

The band had a couple of gigs last week – the first was an open-mic night that just Hank and I went to in New Jersey on Thursday. We’d wanted to connect with this promoter for ages, so it was part networking and part practice for the two of us, as we want to do more acoustic gigs and busking to stay in good musical shape. It was an interesting medley of people who performed, in a jazz bar in West Orange, and as well as finally meeting Michael (the promoter) we made good contacts with some of the other musicians as well. However, it had already been a long week for me, as I’d managed to schedule something every single night until at least 9pm, and I was half-asleep on the way home. A similar thing happened on our Saturday night gig – just as we started our second set, exhaustion hit me like a wave and I seriously thought I was going to throw up on my saxophone. Luckily, I managed to avoid doing so and finished the set before stumbling home and getting a scant five hours of sleep. I was doing a photoshoot on Sunday for Tamsin Silver’s novel series (the first book of which is being published this year, hooray!) and as well as being a character in the novel, I am Tamsin’s proofreader so I was able to help a lot of the other actors with understanding the relationships between all their characters for the shoot. I was utterly exhausted, but it was really fun and I was glad to be able to be part of the day.

By the time Vince and I got home last night (he was the photographer), we were both wiped. I mellowed out with a delicious glass of Knob Creek on the rocks (thanks Craig) and was in bed by 10pm. Ah, the glamorous life.