Trumpets aren't alive, Aims, no matter what Em tells you.

Have you never been to Wonderland, young man?

Tep, I think it's great that your mom went for The Pogues.

In good news for a change, I finally got up the guts to call Amoeba Hollywood and see if the CD I'd consigned on Sept 17 had sold. It had. "Oh, this is strange. We ordered two more from CDBaby. We don't usually order from CDBaby." So while I'd rather they had called me and consigned more directly from me, someone at Amoeba felt strongly enough to want to seek out distribution for my album. Which is great.

That is great. I assume you followed up with more for them, right?
 
And thank you, Windsparrow. I definitely am dealing with the fallout from the suicide prevention seminar, but I think it was a great opportuinty, and I expect it to be powerful tool, yes, in my work. We run a small nonprofit that is a traveling music school. We go to places on the Navajo and Apache reservations and teach music to the kids, using music as a way to live out a little love to them. We work with a lot of marginalized youth from a marginalized culture, so suicide is a high risk. This past six weeks or so there were five suicides in one local town, three in another. In a neighboring county a couple of months ago, there were 38 attempts; 17 youth, and a total of 17 completed. So it`s a huge, urgent problem and I`m grateful to have had the training available, although I am extremely wearied by it. The SO is doing a good job of looking after me, though. So I`ll be all right, but will just take some time to process.

I went to a wedding where the couple's first dance was to Fairytale of New York, though not the Pogues version, but the assembled guests all sang along loudly. Which may have been the point.

That may be our first dance (the Pogues version) but it's kind of hard to dance to!

We're going up the aisle to a Tom Waits song "Never Let Go." It was one of the first things I decided about my wedding. I still have to work all the timing out on it.

You're such a great person, Liese.

She is, isn't she?

Thirded on Liese's stellar qualities.

ETA: They just ordered two from the distributor so they don't need more at the moment. I made it clear I'd be happy to bring some more by when they decide they need them but I kinda think they won't bother since dealing with individual artists is probably viewed as more of a PITA than calling up CDBaby/SuperD. Although they get a better deal going directly to me.

I don't think I've said, Liese, but I'm really glad you did that training, even though it's been hard. Not only because of the benefit to the kids you work with, but also I hope it will help you to feel a little less helpless in the face of seriously troubled kids.

Direct care is HARD, Liese. It is emotionally and mentally draining, which leads to physical.

My direct care positions have all ended at about 9 months, and only one move was not due to burnout.