Projects 'R' Us
I've begun work on a new collaborative project in my music studio. It all started out when my brother wrote lyrics to a rather humorous country music song based on our sister's latest romantic entanglement. He called me on the phone with this idea and asked if I would like to write the music. My brother is an English teacher and has a knack for words, but coming up with musical arrangements for them is a bit problematic for him. I agreed to do this project and even enlisted the help of my friend Brett to play pedal steel on the track. The result was a resoundingly funny success that had most of my family members (particularly my sister) gasping for air between howls of laughter. Being the sort to take the proverbial ball and run with it, my brother gave me a couple of other sets of lyric he had written. Once again these lyrics were wry, humorous tales of true-to life events (with minor artistic license applied). I wrote arrangements for them and we finished cutting tracks for them last week. Again, these songs are funny and seem to hit home pretty well. We decided we are going to make a whole album of songs like these (possibly title it "Sad But True"). We hope to have most of the songs written and recorded before the end of the summer.
In other news, I've been accepted back as a return student to the University of Colorado. I still need to make an appointment with an academic advisor to see what would be the quickest path to finishing a bachelor's degree (any bachelors degree for science would do). After that I'll be entering the Masters program for the school of education so I could ultimately be a science teacher at a public high school. I'll never get rich doing it, but I'll have my summers off, I'll have job security, and the benefits are killer. More importantly, I'll also have a career that has some kind of long-term impact for those whom I teach. When working in the technology field, nothing has any long-term impact due to the ever-changing nature of that business. That's one of the most frustrating aspects of that career path. That and the ever-present threat of downsizing, buyouts, outsourcing, and other mortal threats to one's continued employment.
In other news, I've been accepted back as a return student to the University of Colorado. I still need to make an appointment with an academic advisor to see what would be the quickest path to finishing a bachelor's degree (any bachelors degree for science would do). After that I'll be entering the Masters program for the school of education so I could ultimately be a science teacher at a public high school. I'll never get rich doing it, but I'll have my summers off, I'll have job security, and the benefits are killer. More importantly, I'll also have a career that has some kind of long-term impact for those whom I teach. When working in the technology field, nothing has any long-term impact due to the ever-changing nature of that business. That's one of the most frustrating aspects of that career path. That and the ever-present threat of downsizing, buyouts, outsourcing, and other mortal threats to one's continued employment.