Really, really hard work when there are so many things to be taken into account…
For my dissertation, I need to find two other people who want to play the same night as me, book a venue, and make sure my whole band is free that night. Sounds simple enough… Really, really isn’t.
5th May is a free slot. But I can’t play 5th of May, because my guitarist already has a gig that day.
11th May is a free slot, but also the day of the Music Department concert. Why on Earth they couldn’t have that after the solo performances are over is beyond me. Don’t yet know if any of my band will be playing at the Music Department concert. Also my birthday.
12th May is a free slot, but also the day of the student-led Ensemble concert. I know that the other three members of my band play in ensembles, but don’t yet know if any of them are playing this concert. My guess is yes. Again, why they couldn’t have this after the solo performances are over is completely beyond me.
9th and 10th May there are slots booked at the Newhampton Arts Centre, where we did our Improv gig. I really don’t want to play there, because I don’t think I’ll be able to get people to come, and I don’t know if all these slots are already booked. For all I know, they might be. Last resort for me, if all else fails.
For the latter two, I wouldn’t have to worry about finding people who want to play the same night as me. For the former, I will. I really want to book the Actress and Bishop in Birmingham. Steve Cooper thinks they’ll be just right for the kind of music I’ll be playing, and I think it would be a good idea. But I can’t play there if I can’t find other people who also want to play there.
And now the interim task is starting to loom. Plus, we’re doing our Employability & Enterprise gig on the 16th of March.
I was planning on singing today, finding an empty piano room and doing some exercises. Not gonna happen now. I’m too stressed. Couldn’t sing if I wanted to. I feel like everything’s going to hell and I’m all on my own, I have to manage it all by myself and I just haven’t got the courage or the stamina. I’m gonna need a miracle to get this all to work out…
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You should go to somewhere in Southern Germany at the end of June.
Lol! Why on Earth should I do that?
Because that’s when I will be there.
Bit soon to meet, don’t you think?
Fine, be that way.
Anything worth doing is hard, as the actress said to the bishop (and yes that is almost certainly where they got the venue name from).
Probably, yeah. And I know, I’ve done plenty of hard things before, it’s just that this time I’m entirely without a safety net…
I wasn’t sure, because the “as the actress said to the bishop” humour is sort of unfashionable these days.
Also, my past experience with Norwegians is that they speak very good English, but then you make a cultural reference, and they’re “Huh? What? I don’t understand.” although kudos is due because you’ve raised the bar on that one.
To be fair, I’m not familiar with the background for it, if there is one, but we have similar expressions in both Norwegian and Swedish as well. So, if Norwegians don’t get that one, it’s because they’re generally uncultured.
And “common sayings” like this in other languages are one of the many, too many?, things I have some sort of interest in.
The most common, at least seemingly, in Norwegian is an equivalent of the more modern “That’s what SHE said.” Loosely translated, “That’s what the bride said, too.” Not sure of the origins, probably something along the lines of, “that’s what the bride said to the priest”, or somesuch. Not sure. There are a bitchload of older, no longer much used expressions, though.