I took on too much. I know I know…I’m an artist. It’s what we do. In order to make any semblance of a living through composition, new music, opera, choreography or stage directing, I always take as many paying projects as I can. Some day, hopefully sooner rather than later, I’ll be able to take on fewer projects that pay more. This time, however, I overloaded myself. Just to give you an idea - I started a new job in public speaking that suddenly required 40+ hours of time a week coupled with assistant directing/producing the Juventas Opera Project, stage managing the TCAN Players production of Twentieth Century, learning a new script as a Boston Chocolate Walking Tours Tourguide, while maintaining my position at Cecilia and attempt to have a bit of a social life. The later failed as I am sure you can imagine. Now, I’m just coming out of a couple months of mondo-intensive work and I am looking forward to a bit of chill time.
Working so much definitely forced me to re-evaluate my priorities. Now I am trying to narrow my focus, so I have already left the public speaking position. I gave it a good shot, but that particular position turned out to be more work than it was worth. I’m back to gigging around town and drumming up funding for the many projects I have floating around my mind. So that’s a little catch up on my life.
At this very moment, I’m flying somewhere over Utah on my way to LA for the Opera America Conference. My hope is to blog or at the very least tweet my way through the conference, so stay tuned for the excitement.
