Photo Shoot!

Today I experienced my first professional taiko photo-shoot. Special thanks to Bean for putting in all the work in coordinating this. There was a real photographer with umbrella flashy things and big camera with real film. We showed up with costume and make-up (well, I had my one tube of lipstick anyway--I have some other stuff on the way from internetlandia for me to use and practice with). Boy oh boy are photo shoots exhausting. I came home and my friend was like, you look tired. Your eyes are all red. And I was tired. You wouldn't think standing there with a smile on your face could wipe you out, but it did. But it's hard to project such happy or serious or flirty energy for a couple of hours. It wipes you out.

We don't have rehearsal this weekend, and honestly, I don't really want to think about taiko this week. I love it, but I could use the break. Just want to putter around and work on art projects and play video games and maybe go out and watch a movie. Oh, and work on my drum--but that's not really taiko is it? That's hobby and handicraft. Just need the rest, that's all.

Yawn...