Still alive

It seems like there should be tons of news and stuff to write in a blog entry, but I mostly just sit around my apartment.  I clean stuff sometimes, and I go to the grocery store.  Even that has gone away, because my debit card expired and the new one got sent to my address in Georgia, and it couldn't be forwarded.  So I can't buy groceries.  I sit around, check my facebook, read books I've read before, and eat popcorn.  John is either working or going to yoga or going out, so I have a lot of time to myself.

This week I started making to-do lists and sending emails.  I'm doing some work for the brass band association, and making some Texas contacts...and sort of half-way thinking of getting out of here next year.  Maybe.  I found out that the reason I didn't get the assistantship I wanted was because the dean of the school knew from the beginning that he wasn't going to give it to a euphonium player.  He's gone now, and there's a possibility that I could go for it again, with different results.

The sad thing is, I kinda like it here.  I miss my band and my friends, but I have a new band here and they think I'm great.  I've gone to three rehearsals and I go out with the ones who hang after rehearsals.  They've given me a lot of leads for other bands, most of which don't pay, but they'd fill up my schedule and put me right in the path of people who DO have gigs that pay.  I also had two interviews for a day job last week, and I know they're still interested because they checked my references.  It's not my ideal job, but it's a job, and I've worked in that field before...and I enjoyed it.  For the interview, I was waiting in a hotel lobby downtown and got stuck right in the middle of a huge mob because the Dallas Cowboys were checking in; they do their summer training at the Alamo Dome in San Antonio.  The downside of the job is that it's probably going to be the overnight shift, so that would suck.  I'd get some interesting people-watching, that's for sure, but I'd probably have to start an anonymous blog if I wanted to write about it, hehe.

I might have gotten a teaching gig for next week, working with high school students on their all-state etudes.  It came from a friend-of-a-friend-of-John, though, and the first friend isn't calling me.  I think he probably wanted the first guy he called, and I sound like a third-string suggestion, so he's not going to bother.

I befriended a cat.  The Dude is a female tabby who likes our front porch, and the food that I give her.  She's very sweet, and I think I might have an outside cat now.

I haven't gotten out to take a lot of pictures.  It's just too hot.  And I've been a little depressed, honestly.  Life goes on.