Monday

Monday is supposed to be my "School for the Arts Day" in my daily work routine. Nothing is routine at CCC. Monday ended up being nothing typical. The day started after breakfast by paying bills. I do it twice a month - it works best for me to organize that way. I do like autopay options with some of the bills (the ones that are the same amount every month).

Our SFTA recital is coming up December 13th. This morning was spent working at home sorting out what student plays what at what level. We have about 35 students which is at the borderline of how many you want for one recital. I spent much of my time trying to go through the options of having one recital or two at the same time in different rooms. After consulting with my "mentors" (Jennifer Barrett and Becca Heye) I think that we will go with one recital with a 7th inning stretch in the middle somewhere. No matter how this ends up, it pales in comparison to planning for Fallapalooza!

Lunch was spent at a meeting with SFTA directors going over stuff.

After a little downtime in the afternoon I went to give guitar lessons (4-7pm). Some of these kids are really coming along. I pretty much went over their recital pieces. It is funny how the influence of Guitar Hero continues to this day. Here is the list of some of the songs the kids are going to be playing (all are between the ages of about 8 to 13): Green Manaleshi (Judas Priest version); Iron Man (Black Sabbath); Over the Hills and Far Away (Led Zepplin); Back in Black (AC/DC). As you can guess, this is easy for me to teach since all these songs are from when I grew up! But understand something here: these kids picked the songs, not me! I am still waiting for someone to want to play a riff from Muse or Mute Math or somebody newer like that.

The evening consisted of a meeting spent with most of the Romeoville Arts leaders at our house. It was great! The purpose of the meeting was to plan our Christmas Eve service. It was sooooo cool seeing all of them brainstorming and putting together the service! We did work from a template from Arts Catalyst team but it was an open book after that. some great ideas came up. This team really put their stamp on it and has some ownership in how it will look. Should be cool!

Before I went to bed I still had one important thing to do: watch Heroes. I think that it is finally picking up steam and getting better. I was wondering for a few episodes but it is now getting interesting:

"It's coming..."