day job/night job

i was tired.
when i got home last night, i was tired.
more tired than i thought i should be, despite the fact that i got home a quarter to one in the morning.

i worked at the shoe store yesterday. this means my day didn't actually start until 11am. it was a nice day filled with nice customers who bought nice shoes. i like my coworkers. i left early to drive all the way out to the high school where i teach. it took more than twice as long to get there as it usually does.
i was still early.
last night was my first orchestra concert. my students. my piece. it's kind of surreal. i did it. i became a music teacher. and here i am. teaching music. i think maybe i'll email the video to my high school music director, let him know that my plan worked out.

after the concert, i had a rehearsal for the Broken Toys. We got permission to have a private practice at the Lilypad. I like that place a lot. It's also hard to fit the whole band in the space where we usually practice, though i like that place a lot, too.

Still, when i got home i was exhausted. I think maybe it takes more energy to switch gears than i originally assumed. Something tells me that if my day had been the same length but only doing one or two related things, i wouldn't have felt so spent.


day job

here i am conducting the orchestra.


night job

here i am bouncing around in a skirt i made out of wrapping paper.



here i am in 6" heels* rocking out to a song about anorexia.

*funny story: actually, the last time jaggery was all together in NYC, i put a hole in the stage with those shoes. i was pretty hyped about something and was stomping hard enough that all of the sudden half of the heel was in the stage. i pulled it out, managed to sneak a picture with my phone inbetween songs, then kicked some cables over it. i dont think anyone noticed.

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in two hours i'm driving to new york to play a show with the Broken Toys and Jaggery at Tommy's Tavern in Brooklyn. I'm particularly excited because this is only the second time that all five members  of Jaggery (piano/drums/bass/harp/viola) will be playing all together. We've performed in just about every combination...it's just hard to get all of us in the same place.

We'll drive back to boston after the show. I'll probably be home by 6am.
At 8:30am i'll be starting the first of four, hour-long, back to back, piano lessons
At 12:30 i'll go straight to the shoe store to work
At 6pm i'll leave work early and head to cloud club for another show
and by 1am sunday, i'll be able to go to sleep.
what a life!