Better

Last night I went in to practice early and Carolyn and Janet came early too and we worked on stuff and now I feel SOOO MUCH BETTER. It's not like we had any big breakthroughs or anything, but we just got through a bunch of songs and dusted off some cobwebs and I feel better about things. I know that one of my solos is polished and I don't need to worry about it. Another solo is progressing. A third solo is in the crock pot right now and you can smell it, but no tasting yet--still needs to cook. I'm still debating on what the heck I'm going to do about that 4th solo in six time. I'm either going to not work on it till the very end, or just fake my way through it. I don't like the second option very well, but we'll see what I can do. I just know that I don't have that feeling of despair and feeling overwhelmed.

Did I mention we were there for 4 hours last night? Put in a full day of work and run to the dojo without dinner and play drums for 4 hours till your arms fall out. I had to send J and C an email with extra thanks because I realized what a long day it must have been for them. I hope they get double reward points for their karma.

So until the concert, I'm just going to try to relax and work extra hard. Is that a contradiction? Maybe. But how else am I going to do it?