Rant number 132
Tomorrow is a big day for me. It's a contest that I have been involved in weeks of preperation for. I have also been rehearsing for it every night this week. To me and to quite a few other folk - its a big deal.
Part of this is making sure that you remember everything. You've gotta have your uniform (all components of,) you've gotta have your music, you've gotta have your instrument, you've gotta have your mutes.
Really it's actually not a lot to remember. At most I need maybe 20 items in full.
None the less, I am haunted by a feeling right now that I have forgotten something/will forget something really important!
It's the same feeling that haunts you when you are going on holiday, that 'did I turn off the gas'/'did I remember my toothbrush'/'did I remember to cancel the milkman'/'have I got on the right plane' type feeling.
Maybe its something wrong with me, but whenever something is important I feel that I'm going to do something stupid like end up in Blackpool minus my trombone, my music, my mute or my underwear...
I have an internal checklist working on it, to try and ensure that nothing goes arry, and I should be able to trust my brain - its been with me for a fair while, and its usually pretty trustworthy...
None the less, I'm still not so sure!
I really must go anyway. I need to check the list again...
Rant over.
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