It's a Great Big World After All

Apologies for the lack of update...I seem to have trouble keeping up with this thing. I've been well, I suppose. The job search isn't getting any better, but I've applied and auditioned for a few things here and there. Mostly, I'm staying busy with music and writing. Almost Eliot has played a lot of shows lately - more than we usually do and it's been great. We actually got paid for a show up in the Valley playing 90s cover songs for 3 hours. I was pretty amazed at how well we did. At the end of the set, I actually felt energized instead of drained. It got me to thinking that's the way it should be. After our set, a lady came up to us...said she worked for AEG Live. They're a booking agency out here in LA, the second largest from what I hear. She said she was really impressed with us and thought that the folks at AEG might be able to use us for some upcoming shows. We exchanged contact information and I didnt' hear anything from her for a week, so I called her up and it turns out she hadn't got around to listening to us yet, but said that she would. Typical LA.

You know that expression "it's a small world?" Well, I've been thinking lately...it's not a small world at all. It's a great big world of incredibly startling coincidences...the kind of coincidences that make you wonder about the nature of destiny and our role in it. For example, I was contacted a few weeks ago by a friend from church saying that a chick looking for a keyboard player had contacted Mosaic and he had referred her to me. I got in touch with her and it not only turns out that she and I went to Belmont at the exact same time, but had a ton of the same friends and never knew each other. Crazy, I know, but the real kicker as that the guitarist she recruited also went to Belmot at the same time as us and none of us knew each other. Another example...yesterday, I went against my better judgement to audition for a role with the "Fun and Discovery Entertainment Company". The put on kid's shows with educational bubbles, balloon animals, magic, costumed characters...the works. Not my first choice for a job, but times is tough. In the waiting area, I met these two girls...born in the same hospital as me the same year as me. The other, I was telling about this writer's group I recently joined through Mosaic and she, as it turns out, just started going to Mosaic after moving to the states 3 weeks ago.

I took the Strengths Finder test on Wednesday and one of my top 5 was Connectedness. The definition of Connectedness, according to the test is "People who are especially talented in the Connectedness theme have faith in the links between all things. They believe there are few coincidences and that almost every event has a reason." So what's the meaning of all these fated meetings the past few weeks? What does it have to do with my current crisis? What do I have to do with any of these people's current crisis? Who knows...all I can do is what I do every day; roll with it. That was my top strength, you know...Adaptability: "People who are especially talented in the Adaptability theme prefer to "go with the flow." They tend to be "now" people who take things as they come and discover the future one day at a time."