Finally an update...
September...yuch. Well, it's not that bad, just busy.
Since I last blogged, school has started smoothly. About 70 grade 12 University-hopeful students and 20 'sweathogs' grace my door daily. The funk on hot days has been complained about as being an invisible presence of palpable odour on a few occassions (though I did lecture about hygene on day one). I won't go into one of my usual education rants...yet...
Musically, Kevin and I sweat many proverbial body parts off at the Fox & Fiddle. I'm still not sure if the AC was broken or the owner too cheap to run it. It was still packed with sweaty, dancing students - and again, not a nice smell. Played for some lovely farmers in Woodstock during the last week with the Alysha Brooke band. My buddies in Settlers Creek played the Stampede Corral around the corner, so I caught a bit of their show last week, too. Molly Bloom's Waterloo had a good crowd on Friday and the Acton Fall Fair was typical on Sunday - the power went off a few times in their brand new arena - go figure. Acton.
I just signed on to do some studio and live work with local Kitchener celeb and multi-Juno nominee Charity Brown, so being busy will continue unabated. I'm perhaps too busy now, but couldn't turn this one down.
Some time for pleasant company and socializing, but not enough....ever enough?
That's the word from the trenches. Time to go rehearse.
Nod
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Monday, September 03, 2007
Summer wanes
Ahhh...heavy sigh...summer draws to a close. School bells and cool nights. Shorter days and fuller days. Mourning married with new expectations. But I wax philosophic...
The Isle of Nod has been a busy place of late. But I look on my list of things to do before the end of summer, and I'm falling woefully short. Procrastination and socializing has made the last couple of weeks fun and relaxing before the onslaught of September fully kicks in. I've got to hang out with great friends old and new this summer.
Ed Paton and I have the ball rolling on our t-shirt business idea, so I have some art work to do in the next weeks. Eddie's project "Redux" are preparing to release their second CD - http://www.reduxrmx.com/
School starts tomorrow. I have a class of 40 large grade 12 bodies in my last period, unairconditioned class which makes me a) hope for cool weather, b) hope their hygiene levels are good (I'm thinking that that might be one of the themes of Tuesday's lecture) and, c) want to go out and buy a large quantity of air fresheners. Unfortunately, I only have 34 desks and chairs, so that could be interesting.
Music kicks in locally on Friday as Kevin Coates and I welcome back the university students at the Fox & Fiddle in Waterloo. Should be fun just 'people watching' from the stage.
The Alysha Brooke band played the Country Classic horse competition on Saturday sans lead guitar. More bass solos than should really be allowed transpired, but I had fun.
My folks are cleaning out their house to potentially sell it - which means there are lots of new boxes springing up around my house and strange, arcane memorabilia from my past (most of which is basically old crap) littering my halls. Time to go put some more of it away.
That's the Isle of Nod's farewell to summer post...Summer of '07, you were a temperamental beast, but I will remember you fondly.
NOD
The Isle of Nod has been a busy place of late. But I look on my list of things to do before the end of summer, and I'm falling woefully short. Procrastination and socializing has made the last couple of weeks fun and relaxing before the onslaught of September fully kicks in. I've got to hang out with great friends old and new this summer.
Ed Paton and I have the ball rolling on our t-shirt business idea, so I have some art work to do in the next weeks. Eddie's project "Redux" are preparing to release their second CD - http://www.reduxrmx.com/
School starts tomorrow. I have a class of 40 large grade 12 bodies in my last period, unairconditioned class which makes me a) hope for cool weather, b) hope their hygiene levels are good (I'm thinking that that might be one of the themes of Tuesday's lecture) and, c) want to go out and buy a large quantity of air fresheners. Unfortunately, I only have 34 desks and chairs, so that could be interesting.
Music kicks in locally on Friday as Kevin Coates and I welcome back the university students at the Fox & Fiddle in Waterloo. Should be fun just 'people watching' from the stage.
The Alysha Brooke band played the Country Classic horse competition on Saturday sans lead guitar. More bass solos than should really be allowed transpired, but I had fun.
My folks are cleaning out their house to potentially sell it - which means there are lots of new boxes springing up around my house and strange, arcane memorabilia from my past (most of which is basically old crap) littering my halls. Time to go put some more of it away.
That's the Isle of Nod's farewell to summer post...Summer of '07, you were a temperamental beast, but I will remember you fondly.
NOD
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