Open Mind Surgery

11:08pm: progress in some things
This evening, I managed to ask someone out.

She said no, of course.

But I didn't a) stammer, b) turn into a quivering lump of jelly, or c) fail to realise that she was giving me a hint when she made an excuse. All of these are good, significant steps.

I just sometimes wish women didn't do the whole "subtle hints" thing and just said something like "we've only just met, I'd rather get to know you better in a large group first", or "ask me again in a week or so" rather than "um... I think my family might be taking me to North Berwick. To their caravan. Yeah."

It wasn't quite the first time we'd met - we had played together in a string orchestra many years previously, but it took us a little while to work this out.

Anyway, all this was at a rehearsal for my new piece. Wow. We've got 60 people singing it! It's sounding good! Well, it's sounding OK, and I think on Sunday when we have a decent organist (John Kitchen) it'll sound good. I don't actually like John Kitchen that much as a person (and the feeling appears to be mutual), but as an organist he's extremely good. And dead famous, and all that. I'm not sure he realises it's my piece he's playing though.

Potential problem is, Andrew, who's conducting and nominally in charge, sometimes misses a beat out. And if he does, and tells John that it was John's fault, John Kitchen will probably shout at him. I really hope that doesn't happen. Ah well. Andrew was diagnosed with kidney/bowel cancer back in December and given about two months to live, so it's pretty amazing that he's still alive, let alone conducting.

Otherwise, have mainly been working. The pretty sax players do want to come up, so that's nice. The group from Newcastle have paid a deposit, even better. Everything is under control. I should probably be doing bit more marketing now that I have time to do it. mmmmrrrp. Why is it that any free time I have, i can always think of something better I should be doing instead of wasting it?