Lesson that must be learned...

Today was bonkers.

Like my title says, a lesson that must be learned NOW before I go on this semester is to let things go...or I will make enemies.

I need to be less stressful or I will not be tolerable to others.

The day started out with getting up early to clean the building because a music engineer from Blackbird Studios was coming over to see our building.

Then we had critical listening class. We listened to the Roots of Rock like Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Elvis, and more. I liked listening to it all- my father taught me right!

Then we had our tech class. We were down in Studio A again where we talked about recording room acoustics and how to turn on the tracking room computer for ProTools. Then the guys went off on a geeky rant about computers and the cost of them and other stuff. I lost focus :(

Lunch

Then we had a class with Warren where EVERYONE learned about compression, gate and equalizer. The way Warren explained it, which was watered down, made sense to me. (OH BOY!) This means that Candice is an idiot.

Next we had people take their acoustic guitars up to the stage and play them to see which guitars were good or bad. Then we discussed compression, equalizer and gating on voice and drums.

Our close up photo shoot was canceled as well as our production meeting in order to do this.

FOR Candice, this means less time to go over the stage plots and less time to discuss with the producers about the show. BUT no one else was stressed about it. Great.

Then I watched Joe design the lights for two of the artists for three hours.

I wanted to yell at people, I wanted to quit.

I MUST learn to let go of stress and problems.

I must learn to listen.

I shouldn't be here. I'm not cut out for this.

Mom and Dad, don't call. If you were here, you'd agree.

This doesn't mean I won't work my butt off to understand and learn. I WILL.

It's just discouraging...but I'll get through and prove myself wrong.

RAWR!

Wish me good luck tomorrow. I'm gonna need it.

"SHUT UP! I WANT PEACE! I WANT TO HEAR MY MUSIC!"