Thursday, January 19, 2012

How do they do it?

I'm passionate about music and enjoy all kinds of music.  One group I enjoy is Celtic Woman.  I've always been fascinated with Celtic history and music especially since I performed with the Kilties Sr. drum & bugle corps in 2001 and 2003.  I saw the latest YouTube video of the Celtic Woman ladies and in it they say that they do read all of their tweets and posts on Facebook.  This puzzles me actually.  Going from my experience as a musical performer, especially in tour (drum corps), when would one have time to read thousands of tweets and posts?  I know what it take to prepare for a performance, and it does eat up very much time.  A daily agenda can be filled with much time in practice / rehearsal, then getting ready for the show, perform the show, then loading up/packing up and heading to the next town.  At least in my experience, the road time was usually at night so us members usually were getting some sleep while on the road.  I suppose you could read tweets and such while on the road.  Still, with thousands and thousands of tweets and Facebook posts...how can all of them be read, let alone replied to???

No, I'm not dead LOL

I've just been rather busy with work and raising a toddler that having time to myself is rare.  Here's an update, I  have withdrawn from the Nursing program at Lake Michigan College and have returned to work at Bosch as a temp.  I don't know how long I'll be at Bosch, but at least it's a paycheck and it buys me more time to find another job.  What I'd really want to do is learn to play the cello and then play with an orchestra.  I've had plenty of experience with wind and percussion instruments, the string family is one I've not had the pleasure of experiencing.  Plus, music is the one form of Beauty that I am most passionate about, so why can't I get paid to do the thing I love to do?  I doubt I will ever get to play cello, but who knows.

Oh well, back to work.