It has been months since I have blogged here. I'm embarrassed as I had honest intent to stay focused on this project and that just didn't happen. Here are my excuses for my failure:
1.) I got married
2.) My new husband and I moved across the country...away from Los Angeles and back to the Midwest of my birth.
3.) Naturally, there were transitional life change freak-outs and I had to focus on the big question, what the fuck am I gonna do with my life now that I can no longer claim almost starving artist as my title.
4.) During this extended freak-out, I picked up the guitar maybe only once.
5.) As such, my skills are very rusty, which makes it less fun to play, which leads to more resistance to picking up the guitar.
Now, more than six months since the move, I have a job teaching at a University, and I am very excited. I had difficulty breaking in to University teaching in LA but I have hoped for an opportunity for several years now. Still, I had assumed that my experience was too long ago, and that I would be forever stuck at the high school level.
But, with the verve of a high school senior applying to a reach university, I sent my resume to several local universities and lo and behold, here I am. I'm starting at the adjunct level, which means I am part time. But my goal is to eventually land a full time job and build a career as an almost starving artist protected only by my job in the academy, as they say. In order to give my CV that special standout experience/project that will make me an attractive full time candidate, I am revising the Deflowered show I created and produced in LA for production on campuses here. This means I'm working up some new music for the show - which means I'm playing guitar again.
As such, I would like to revisit this girl and a guitar project in earnest. However, I make no promises that my my progress will be anything other than slow. I still have dreams of becoming a better than adequate guitar player. And, I was seeing improvement before I abandoned this project to deal with life. So, it's time to shake the cobwebs out of my joints and get back to work. I will be starting where I left off, with Synchronicity II, by the Police and The Thrill is Gone, by BB King. I love both of these songs and I actually had both close to being ready for posting before I abandoned. Alas, I shall finish with these and then move on.
