List

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I felt like writing lists.

This is probably more for my benefit than for yours, but what the hell. I haven't posted in forever, so I might as well do it here.

Things I Want To Do:

1. Stay in Boston beyond September.
2. Write an album within a year, record it within two.
3. Move to Cambridge, Somerville, or Jamaica Plain with one or two other roommates.
4. Pay my bills.
5. Play more gigs.
6. Record more; either my own stuff or other people's.
7. Not flip my $#1% when I go speak to the immigration lawyer on Wednesday.
8. Not freak out if/when I have to leave jobs with steady paycheques for better musical opportunities.

Things I Want To Do Failing Item Number 1:

1. Go play on the cruise ships and earn some dollaz.
2. Write an album within a year, record it within two.
3. Pay my bills.
4. Play more gigs.
5. Record more; either my own stuff or other people's.
6. Not freak out about money yet.
7. Take musical opportunities when they are available, and not worry about what they pay.

Things I Do Not Want To Do:

1. Move back to Edmonton - yet. It's a possibility in the future, but I don't want it to be a fall-back move right now.
2. Not pay my bills.
3. Continue playing a very low number of gigs.
4. Give up on things because I didn't get a new US work visa.
5. Teach beginning piano students.

Things I Could Possibly Do A Couple Years Down The Road In Life:

1. Go to grad school for piano. Continue to perform and write.
2. Go to grad school for composition. Continue to perform and write.
3. Go to grad school for education. Teach piano at the college level.
4. Go to grad school for education. Develop a course on chart-writing and pitch it to Berklee (or other contemporary music school) because nobody knows how to write lead sheets that are legible.
5. Not go to grad school. Continue to perform and write.

Who knows? I sure don't.