(Originally posted on June 29, 2010)<\/p>\n
What season, you ask?\u00a0 It’s the festival season.\u00a0 I’m here in southern Vermont, working for the Marlboro Music Festival as a music librarian.\u00a0 This is my 12th summer working for the festival, and my 7th summer as a full-season staffer.\u00a0 Even while I was in Japan studying Bach, I worked on the festival’s scheduling database…\u00a0 I can say I maintain a good relationship with the organization, and it is a relationship I cherish very much.<\/p>\n
I’ve been driving to Marlboro in recent years.\u00a0 And when I drive into South Road for the first time each year, I usually get excited or relieved that I safely arrived.\u00a0 South Road is a local road that leads to the Marlboro College campus, and it is the road you drive at the end of the two-day road trip.\u00a0 Usually I feel comfortable driving back to this place.\u00a0 It’s almost like you never left \u2014 pretty much everything looks familiar to me.\u00a0 But this year wasn’t the same.\u00a0 This time around, I was neither excited nor relieved driving into South Road.<\/p>\n
It has been 10 days since I arrived here, and I’m already exhausted.\u00a0 I’m still not excited, and definitely not relieved.\u00a0 Since I’m not that anxious to get back to the painful reality, I do not wish this festival were much shorter, but I do feel that I am heavy-hearted thinking about this festival and that my days here will eventually get tougher and tougher…<\/p>\n
And I do think that is partially because of my wrist.\u00a0 I’m off the cast now, but remember that I was pretty inactive while I was still in the cast for nearly 7 weeks.\u00a0 And I am still in a brace when I need to engage in some physical tasks.\u00a0 I assume that my body wasn’t quite ready for this busy and social lifestyle.<\/p>\n
Here is my first day-off of the season \u2014 time to rest and recollect.\u00a0 And Miles and I are planning on taking the boat out on a lake to fish today.\u00a0 I’m hoping that fishing will just do the trick for me \u2014 I sure want to feel more positive again.\u00a0 I want to enjoy good and substantial conversations with my old friends and the musicians here.\u00a0 Here is my first day-off, and I am going to grab this opportunity to turn things around, even just a bit.\u00a0 I am going to enjoy this day-off.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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