A Whole Slew of Projects

I posted my project yesterday, and I'm still planning on following through. I'm excited. My usual performance anxiety is decreased by the fact that it doesn't really matter to me whether I get in or not. I haven't got my heart set on it, so it wouldn't bother me not to be cast. It's going to be fun to audition, and I'll meet some great people (by all accounts.) It's really refreshing to have a project on which I haven't pinned any crushable hope. Generally, I'm so emotionally invested in most of my ideas and plans that I shy away from following through on them, in the event that they fail and I get all sad and mopey.

I feel I should mention the rousing success of my last completed project (the duet.) I got rave reviews at both concerts this weekend, and our choir's researcher/orator, a former professional vocalist, encouraged me to look into a singing career. After I got done doing the giggly *squeee* dance, I reasoned that although I don't know if I want to try to break into such a competitive field, I really ought to be doing much more singing.

This segues nicely into a list of projects I want to undertake, possibly using this blog as a medium for accountability and trip reports.

• Put together a combo and do some jazz or lounge singing. Possibly in a jazz lounge.
• Explore Baroque and Renaissance repertoire, which fits beautifully with my voice. Possibly start lessons up again. Eventually look for some singing gigs.
  
• Get back into community theater, musical or otherwise.
• Volunteer at the Independent Media Center.
• Write a letter to the editor, because I've always wanted to.
• Find a professor who is doing research that inspires me and write to them. (This is also a crucial part of my grad school quest.)
• Refine the collaborative story that my friend Jessa and I wrote and assemble it into a chapbook. Possibly illustrate it.
• Draw more of the several comic strips I've worked on. (Ducks of War you all have seen. My other projects include House Quotes, which is a semi-autobiographical strip chronicling the stupid things we say at casa Galasso-Seleen, and another collaborative project with Jessa about her characters Hart and Mandy.)
• Relearn how to use the sewing machine I inherited from my mother.
  

My project list is telling me I need more creative pursuits in my life. Either I need to work less or work more creative jobs.

Hey, Scott Adams! Feel like becoming a patron of the arts? I could knit you a pointy-haired hat or a binder cozy!