It Is Thursday, Right??

Complain, complain, complain.

I am sitting here, trying to remember what day it is. I have this issue when I am on breaks because there are no outside pressures, but I REALLY have this issue when I find my typical daily schedule interrupted - like with a Monday at work without music therapy sessions. I am at odds with my expectations, mainly because I didn't have as many sessions as I have on my schedule.

It is Thursday, right?

This means that I have my Tuesday groups again and my Monday groups are finished for the week. Everything is a bit discombobulated in my brain, so I am having to remind myself over and over that this is the way it is this week, not next week, but will replicate the week after when we have Monday off for MLK, Jr. Day.

I don't like having Mondays off or away from students. It just messes with my mind too much.

Things are going well with other tasks. I have felt pretty good about my upcoming events as well as my own quests for musictherapyworks.com. I have my new journal planner going, and it is working the way I was hoping it would. I do pretty well with keeping up with this type of planning, and I have some BIG quests for this year, so it will be important to continue as I have started.

Other than the confusion about what day it is right now, I am feeling pretty good about myself and what is happening around me. We are starting to talk about music notation with some of my groups. We are starting with the concept of the music alphabet (that's a song I need to put onto paper), and then we are starting the idea of notation being a map. I think we will be doing notation things every other week for the next several months because I want to encourage my clients to know a bit more about general music theory than they do now.

It is time to dig out my notation neighborhood file.

There is lots happening in this world that is emotionally challenging. I am having to insulate myself from news intrusions. It is difficult to watch as people try to take control of freedoms that we are accustomed to - I don't want to be in a dictatorship, and I will fight for our republic when I can do so. Watching and listening to the things that a small group of people think should happen to me is devastating, so I avoid the information. It just breaks my heart that our country is not the country that I thought.

Enough of that.

Today, my job is to figure out what to do with three of my four groups that is different from what we did in the first session this week. My job is to support my clients in their musical and personal development. My job is to figure out what to talk about in the upcoming symposium and start the presentation design. Before I start that, though, I have to take a shower and head off into the rain.

I hope that your day goes well, reader. Thanks for being here.

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