Insomnioboe

I very, very rarely suffer from insomnia. Tonight is one of those nights -I just cannot fall asleep and of course, it is one of the nights this week that I need to sleep. Tomorrow is Teaching Tuesday and I am not only adding a new student, but I am moving my home studio student that lives in town to an earlier AM time! Yikes!

It would be like someone granting me a magical wish to be able to stay at home or any set location and teach my students (I really like the idea of being at home though!!!) My teaching is probably the job affected most by my commute. It is easy to come in and out of town for gigs; they have ONE set location and time-- very simple. My students however, really cover the map of the city and while I hate to sound like a wimp about it- it is very difficult to drive from place to place in Las Vegas traffic often times in a hurry.

I HAVE to find a place to settle down and teach in Las Vegas. I am getting annoyed that the major music store in town has not responded to the resume and request that I put in for a room and time slot... I guess I will just have to be a pain in their side ;)

I just have this dream vision of my nice little oboe room with all of my alphabetized music, my reed desk, my oboe sitting on it's peg, and me sipping some tea waiting for the next student to waltz in. Well... I suppose I will just have to keep dreaming until I can start some more kids on oboe this fall here in Mesquite. While I know that I will never have a studio here at home like the one I have in Vegas- I really hope to at least begin to create some turnover into the High School here which hasn't a single oboe kiddo.

(I know that I have talked a little bit about the town we live in before, but to put it in perspective- there are two elementary schools, one middle school (where my husband is the band director) and one high school. In Las Vegas there are about 50 middle schools and 30 high schools that I visit as the district oboe specialist.

Well now, writing all of this has made me a little bit sleepy. I had better try and go get some rest or I will not be a very fun oboe teacher tomorrow!