Hopefully within the next month, if I can scratch together some money in my paypal account, I’ll be setting myself up with a real hosting plan. Yes, the time has come to depart from my DIY hosting and pay a few dollars for your sake (I often hear how slow my site is to view). If anyone has a few dollars they could spare, I’d really appreciate it. I calculated the total cost of my website should be a staggering $21.08 US per year. If a handful of people could throw a couple of dollars my way, it would obviously help, and possibly almost entirely cover the costs. If you have a few dollars lying around, please send me an email. If you don’t want to - no dramas.

Also there are talks of a change in domain name. As most of my friends suffer from crippling mental deficiencies, they often have troubles remembering my domain name, and working the bookmarks/favourites is just a challenge I’d rather not see them fail, so keep your eyes peeled for changes.

So I spent all friday night - or was it saturday night, or both? - transposing the title song from Cabaret. I turn up to rehearsal today only to find out it shouldn’t have been transposed at all - it was in the right key to begin with. This is not just a case of me being clumsy, I was told over and over I was to rush through this transposition (ie. spend my weekend doing it). Deep breaths. I’ll get through this surge of emotion.

Also, at rehearsal today one of the cast apologised for ‘taking his frustrations out’ at me last rehearsal. I didn’t really notice. Oh well.

This has been overshadowed by the news that i’ll be musically directing a show I really love this summer break. I’m very excited, even though it means i’ll be spending my birthday weekend in a theatre auditioning people. Oh well - the price you pay.

Let me remind you that a podcast is on its way - I just need a block of a few hours to edit it together, and I’d rather not start it now.

I’m making an effort to clean out my hard drive and remove all the files I use to piece together each podcast, as many wave files take up a lot of space. I do like to archive everything possible, but I figure that deleting them now will help me later on when I decide to go through them again. It might cut down the stuff available to me, but it will also cut down the amount of time needed to traul through it. I’m probably even going to go as far as removing the wave file mix downs and the Audacity work files and keep only the compressed files that are distributed and made available for download. No high quality CD release in the future, it seems.

I also got a hair cut yesterday, the first day I’ve had free for a couple of weeks. It’s really quite short again, it hasn’t been this short since many cuts ago. I must say, it wasn’t a good sign when I sat down in the chair, and looked up on top of a set of shelfs to the right of the mirror and there is a small fishbowl with a lovely purple fish floating upside in it. I tried to tell myself it was sleeping, but if the lack of food didn’t kill it, the overpowering density of nail polish fumes and hair spray certainly would have made breathing difficult for the poor thing.

Oh, and did I really talk about envelopes for most of my first podcast? Oh dear…

“Your commitment is perfect. We’ve never had a Musical Director as committed as you are.”

The production assistant for Cabaret shared this with me today during a break. It was nice. Honestly, I’m not suprised this is not the norm. From next week I’ll be attending seven and a half hours of cast rehearsal per week, and this is on top of work at home and band rehearsals. It’s a lot of work, and I’m really kicking my ‘time management’ skills into gear to keep me afloat with the rest of my uni work.

Thankfully this is all good busy, but there comes a time when good busy turns bad, and I’m guessing it’ll be in two weeks time when I have my midsession exam for economics.

Rather than stating the obvious and turning this blog into a diatribe against the world, I’ll instead make heavy promises of forthcoming podcasts, one slightly special event that should take place on Monday morning. More news as it comes to hand.

First Cabaret band rehearsal tomorrow in the morning, then cast rehearsal all afternoon. Today I had Ben over in the morning to record a backing track, rehearsal in the afternoon then tutoring in the evening, and all night I’ve been working on an assessment due thursday. I really want to get ahead and finish my economics assessment due next week, but it’s coming down to the fact that there are only so many hours in the day, and my list of “Urgent” things is very great. It’s not that I’m not doing much work - in fact I’m working almost every waking hour (truthfully), but my list of things to do is just unbearable. Blah blah, you’re all so interested.