Further Fragmented Thoughts, but Good Ones
Tour officially ended for me yesterday. Now I'm faced with an open expanse of daytime and am not quite sure how to fill it. I'll probably start writing my living-local column again and will hopefully sit down with an instrument for a while this afternoon. Maybe take a bike ride. I've already spent the morning working on booking shows for the next tour - I think this morning convinced me as much as the past week did that touring is what I should be doing with my life right now.
So yeah, somewhere along the road from Chicago to New York I decided to tour full time starting this summer. So I'm not quite sure how that will go, and I'm getting a bit nervous about the costs of touring with Geekdom, but my heart is so looking forward to it that I'm not really worried in any earnest sort of way. I've got tours planned through November and so now is just the detail sorting time. Mandala is going to help me record some songs, if not an entire album. I've got to have one under my belt to hit the road this summer. Independently I'm going to finish writing my collection of ukulele songs and release it digitally using dropcards. Shaping up to be between twelve and eighteen songs of varying seriousness, so that's fun.
Record boy surprised me by coming to the show in VA. We're seeing each other, I guess, in vague hazy cool sort of terms. Trying not to worry there, just letting the universe move as it does. I've not trusted anyone quite like I trust him in a very long time, so that's good. Growing up! Who knew.
And I still really want to get out of Virginia, but the plan to move in September sits a bit more hazy now as I know I'll be touring for a few solid weeks in the fall and don't know what my finances will be like. Plus, the morning after I solidified the decision to tour full time I heard from two of my jobs offering me opportunities for advancement. I don't want to say no, but I probably will. I'd really like to move to Pennsylvania; right now, that's the current idle dream. But six months from now, who knows what I'll want. So no holding my breath.
Tour was wonderful. It was such a leisurely trip, almost every minute of it. Just chill. Played some of the best sets of my life. Performing with Diagon Alley in Chicago was a dream - they create such a complete and full sound, and it was cool to exist as the grounding and center of it. Singing with the Humdingers was fun, too, though I have no clue how I sounded. Backup vocals are harder than they look in that sort of setting, but I'm very glad for the opportunity and had a lot of fun. Can't wait to see videos from the weekend. And the house parties went unrecorded, but damn if I didn't make a bunch of people cry. So cool. Performing is awesome. I need to write some better songs. Should do that now. Might.
Also, undenim goes in fits and starts of failure and mediocrity. But I'm surviving, the month's almost over, and yeah. Another project under my belt. Thinking about walking away from the rigidity of the living local challenge when I move back to Fredericksburg for the summer. I'm just not healthy right now, and tour did nothing to help regulate my dangerous eating habits. Really don't want to develop an eating disorder, but then it might be easier to manage now that the farmers markets are all opening up again. So we'll just play it by ear, but I bet I don't make it the whole year. Not really bothered, either; I've learned enough so far to realize that vegetarianism doesn't really suit me as much as the local stuff, so there is that. It'll be an incredibly long time before I'm willing to make that transition, but I bet it happens eventually.
Lots of forward motion. I'm feeling bound for progress. It's good. I'm good. Let's hope it lasts now that I'm no longer spinning with the Earth.
So yeah, somewhere along the road from Chicago to New York I decided to tour full time starting this summer. So I'm not quite sure how that will go, and I'm getting a bit nervous about the costs of touring with Geekdom, but my heart is so looking forward to it that I'm not really worried in any earnest sort of way. I've got tours planned through November and so now is just the detail sorting time. Mandala is going to help me record some songs, if not an entire album. I've got to have one under my belt to hit the road this summer. Independently I'm going to finish writing my collection of ukulele songs and release it digitally using dropcards. Shaping up to be between twelve and eighteen songs of varying seriousness, so that's fun.
Record boy surprised me by coming to the show in VA. We're seeing each other, I guess, in vague hazy cool sort of terms. Trying not to worry there, just letting the universe move as it does. I've not trusted anyone quite like I trust him in a very long time, so that's good. Growing up! Who knew.
And I still really want to get out of Virginia, but the plan to move in September sits a bit more hazy now as I know I'll be touring for a few solid weeks in the fall and don't know what my finances will be like. Plus, the morning after I solidified the decision to tour full time I heard from two of my jobs offering me opportunities for advancement. I don't want to say no, but I probably will. I'd really like to move to Pennsylvania; right now, that's the current idle dream. But six months from now, who knows what I'll want. So no holding my breath.
Tour was wonderful. It was such a leisurely trip, almost every minute of it. Just chill. Played some of the best sets of my life. Performing with Diagon Alley in Chicago was a dream - they create such a complete and full sound, and it was cool to exist as the grounding and center of it. Singing with the Humdingers was fun, too, though I have no clue how I sounded. Backup vocals are harder than they look in that sort of setting, but I'm very glad for the opportunity and had a lot of fun. Can't wait to see videos from the weekend. And the house parties went unrecorded, but damn if I didn't make a bunch of people cry. So cool. Performing is awesome. I need to write some better songs. Should do that now. Might.
Also, undenim goes in fits and starts of failure and mediocrity. But I'm surviving, the month's almost over, and yeah. Another project under my belt. Thinking about walking away from the rigidity of the living local challenge when I move back to Fredericksburg for the summer. I'm just not healthy right now, and tour did nothing to help regulate my dangerous eating habits. Really don't want to develop an eating disorder, but then it might be easier to manage now that the farmers markets are all opening up again. So we'll just play it by ear, but I bet I don't make it the whole year. Not really bothered, either; I've learned enough so far to realize that vegetarianism doesn't really suit me as much as the local stuff, so there is that. It'll be an incredibly long time before I'm willing to make that transition, but I bet it happens eventually.
Lots of forward motion. I'm feeling bound for progress. It's good. I'm good. Let's hope it lasts now that I'm no longer spinning with the Earth.