Like Sand In An Hourglass, So Are The Young and the Restless

Quickie update time! Can't believe it's Monday already - time is just flying! Flyeeeng!! On Saturday I went for the first readthrough of A Christmas Carol, which is the year-end production I'm writing the music for. The show's in less than two months, and I've only just begun to work on it (eeek!), so time's becoming sparser and sparser! I'm very, very concerned as to how I'm going to balance full-time work in TNG with Christmas Carol... I'm thinking I might need to work fewer days next month, which is allowed by the company. The only thing is, we're kinda understaffed at the moment, and if I work fewer than five days, who's gonna take over my role??? Eeek! Any subeditors out there? Anyone?? Anyone??! Apply within!

My plan to produce FTL year-end 2009 has encountered a slight hitch. My mate (who's interested in directing it) and I had a meeting with the KLPac VIPs on Friday to see if we might be able to pitch the show for 2009; and the suggestion that has been given to us is to produce a workshop of it next year and stage it proper in 2010. Not a negative proposal by any means, but not 100% ideal either, given that the show has already been "workshopped", as it were, in the Perth 2005 version. So... back to the drawing board.

Hope's not all lost yet! There's an acquaintance of mine who has experience in doing all the running-around tasks who might be interested in taking it on and finding the sponsors and investors and what-not; and another mate of mine has suggested maybe we should play the Christian card, given it is, after all, the Christmas story. In other words: get help from churches. (The Catholic church is very rich, no? Make it a joint multidenomination effort, and who knows? God willing, eh? God willing.) Oy vey. More on this as it develops, folks. What a headache.

Earlier tonight (well, on Sunday) I went to my friend Sam's house for his birthday party, which was pretty fun. Went there late and ended up coming home at around 3am (about an hour and a half ago). Lots of singers there, and I ended up playing the keyboard (though rather limitedly, given that my only memorised repertoire is... well... just my own music. There's only so much room in the ol' noggin, sad to say!)... and... um... well, that's really it. Parties are fun. Pity I had to come back home and continue subediting articles for the website. Osh kosh bgosh. What a life.

Ah well, best I hit the sack. Gotta get up soonish to go to work...

Bye for now!