Phew!

Had a good taiko day today. I've been waking up early on Sundays and running through different songs. Then I go load up drums at Janet's and take them over to the rehearsal space. Today we ran through our 45 minute set twice, and also worked on particular songs, or parts of songs that give us trouble. It was a lot of work, physically. We were all sweaty, but I think we're pretty confident with our show. After class I'm usually really beat, and I had to take a nap. It's like as soon as I get in my car after unloading, my body says can I sleep now? and I get really tired. Too tired to even be hungry or thirsty. I just need to take a nap.

And if today's particularly demanding run-throughs weren't enough, I realized that I had to tighten my shime today, or I wouldn't have a chance before Wednesday's show. So I cranked the heck out of my baby till she was as tight as I could get her without killing myself. I'm sure the Kodo folks would laugh at the tension on my shime, but hey--I'm a wimp. Tomorrow night we're going to crank up Janet's shimes, so that should be interesting. She's going to show me the two-person method. That should be fun!

Must eat and rest now. Eyes are getting heavy. Very heavy . . .