well, i have this whole week "off" and i had most of last week off, too. but that just means i get to do a ton of work! my own work. i've been putting in 8-10 hour days on different music projects i don't get to pay attention to when i'm teaching all the time.

also, i picked up a half-dozen more classes at the music college and i have a TON of curriculum to learn, so i can teach it all. put in the work now, infuse my own material and i won't have to prepare for these classes for subsequent quarters.

[1] Or, you can kick back on the sofa with some can's of Murphy's Irish Stout and gaze out the window while listening to groovy Nigerian Juju records..oh wait, that's MY week off!

[2] Ugh..did i really just put an apostrophe in cans to make it "can's"?? Very ready for the next week off work..

oh, i put in 4 solid nights in a row of kicking back with Full Sail ale (pale one night, amber another, repeat)! i'll get back into that on Wed.

i need to make dents in many millions of projects. i'm doing alright so far. must keep it up! right now, i'm nitpicking over the quality of a chord, as i compose the final piece for the final (3rd) solo cd. one more demo of it and i'm gonna kick back on the futon and watch the new Rush live dvd that's been sitting on the coffee table for several weeks. : )

[4] Sounds great! (The kicking back I mean, not the Rush live DVD :)

About an hour till Guinness O'Clock here, then off for new year's vacation. Got two cans of Guinness for me and Mrs. Jazz to take on the overnight bus too! Japan is so embraceful of public drinking..yayy!

[5] "Embraceful"? Sounds like you started already, dude.

I gotta woik tamorry. Then Sachi and I got plans. Illumination. Ice Skating. You name it.

Me? Running. Eating. Drinking. Sleeping. Rinse and repeat.

Oh. And I must buy some new tunes. Thinking of: Florence Welsh, Merrill Garbus, Caitlin Rose, The Black Keys....maybe Adele. Maybe some PJ Harvey. On the retro need to grab some Etta James, too.