Oh, right, this exists!

Hallo fair people of teh interwebs! My summer's been... well, kinda boring, to be honest.  Most of my musicky things are done until the end of August.  I'm really missing my orchestra playing, but I guess there's only 28 days or something until rehearsal starts again.

I bussed by a baseball diamond today, and was reminded of a story that my professor told me from when he was principal in the orchestra here in the city (not our current orchestra, but the precursor, which was disbanded in the early 1980s).  Said orchestra went on a tour that included a stop at the South shore, and when they got to the place, they passed by a baseball diamond.  Having shown up really early, presumably for some R&R on the vacation, the orchestra decided they'd go down to the diamond and play a game of softball (I guess real orchestras bring this kind of equipment when they go on tour? XD).  Little did they know that the field was out of commission, and maintenance wasn't done on it, so it was incredibly muddy, wet, and slippery.

But that didn't stop them, largely due to being oblivious of the fact.  By top of the second, both teams were covered in mud and making absolute fools of themselves.  However, they were having a blast, and a little shoddiness couldn't stop them.  I imagine the look on the valet's face at whatever hotel they were staying at, as a (presumably) 40-50-piece orchestra walks in totally trashed.

It's stories like these that make me yearn for that kind of life.  Like, maybe if I get the job I want, we won't tour, or maybe we'll be more serious than that, but... it's just that sense of all the people there WANTING to be there.  Well, we assume wanting.  The trumpets in our current orchestra are infamous amongst us students for a maneuver where, when repeating a section without trumpet, they'll both (in unison!) slump down with their heads in their hands, but we can't tell if that's just because they want to move on already, or what.

I just REALLY want this to get here already... it's little things like these that re-kindle that motivation.  We'll see what the future has in store.