Stay positive, stay cool

Another week at the Orchestra is over ... And believe me, I'm gonna love my bed tonight !!

What happened since last post ?

- Still no credit card, but I will go to the bank tomorrow morning to get it ! Champagne !!

- I went to the Théâtre des Champs Elysées to listen to the first concert of our season, and it was AMAZING !!

- And now, another terrible story !

All the facts that you're gonna read are TRUE !

Last week was the "concert week", and we all had a lot of things to do. 

Next Monday, two auditions : viola and cello. 

When I arrived, almost one month ago, Florie (the one who was leaving) told me how to do for the auditions. 

Great. 

She told me a lot, but not everything. So I forgot some papers when we had the violin auditions two weeks ago.

For those, she was supposed to check the jury before quitting her job.... She did, but no, didn't.

I spent something like two weeks calling the musicians of the Orchestra 

"Do you want to be a member of the jury for the audition, no because you don't have the time... ok..."

What you need to know is that there is a specific hierarchy in an orchestra, and so, when you have to organize an audition, you cannot call a guy just like that, you have to call the first violin (sometimes, this person is also the soloist), the second violin, the first viola, etc... 

For a string audition, the perfect jury is : first violin / soloist, second violin, first viola, first cello and a first from the wind instrument.

Easy ?

Not when you're in November and that everybody is overbooked.

Viola is morning, Cello afternoon.

The cello was almost done. And, when I left, tonight, it was still "perfect". What I mean is that I have 5 people, but it's only strings ... 

The viola made me almost cry !

Around noon, the perfect jury : two viola, one violin, one cello and one oboe.

I needed to check different things before sending them THE last email (by checking other things, I mean, work on the website, call the studio for the parking... only good stuff). Last email, I check the hour 16:30, I think "cool, today I can leave just in time" (well, Marie, my co-worker asked me a little help for copy, so I helped).

Back to my desk to turn off the computer "You have an unread message", OK...

"You say I'm a member of the jury, but you never confirmed it, I'm not free anymore"

W.T.F ????

(the email, sent at ... 16:30 !)

Few minutes before, the president of the jury, a wonderful woman, told me she needed to cancel the morning, but will be there the afternoon and will take care of finding somebody else to replace... And so, in 1 second, my wonderful jury made me ask to my boss "What do I risk if I kill an oboist ?", she said "call the boss", the boss said "damn ! ok, so send an email to the directorate, we take care of it because I know that you don't work on thursday and friday". 

Because I needed it, the phone rang every seconds when I was writing the email, so after pressing the "send" button, I realized that I was forgetting some important information like : I called everybody and the one who sent me this email is ... So second email !

I was trying to relax when the phone rang, AGAIN ! I took it, and had to. It was Vincent. The poor guy, I think that he thinks I'm crazy.

He first asked if I was ok, and when he asked it, I just laughed. I knew I could joke about it (without giving names, of course), because he could have never received his convocation for his Violin audition !

Oh you don't know that story ? 

In fact, I made a mistake in his email address, the wrong guy sent me an email saying "I AM NOT THAT VINCENT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" ... Reading this, I realized I made a mistake, and sent him the convocation ! And he won, and laughed when I told him ...

So, I had to take that phone call, because he will do the next Zizic Maestro (the concert for the kids) and for the moment I don't know who are the musicians, except him, a viola and another violin. (I miss the five others ... Concert is on December 5th ...)

Having this sweet phone call helped me. After that, I changed a thing or two on the website, and decide it was time to go.

In between, I saw that Emilie was on the phone, she was talking about the elevator, few minutes before Marie left ... I asked her "Was Marie boxed-in in the elevator ?" "Yes she was, so I helped her ..." ...

I leave, take the elevator...I push the 0 button, it goes down to the -1, doesn't open, stop, go up, go down, open the doors in front of the wall ! I was laughing ! I called Emilie and told her "When you leave, don't take the elevator, take the stairs !" 

Yes, I was box-in too ! She push the 0 button for me, and I was able to leave ! 

I thought the day will be cool because I read my horoscope that said : 

 

I don't need to translate the "love" part, it's not interesting, just saying that I will have a beautiful day with my partner ... Who's my partner ??

No, the good one is "business" : "It's good. Even on unexpected stuff. You will do things that will be beneficial for your future."

When I read this I was thinking : "Great, it's my last day before the week end, that means I'll have my jury before the end of the day !"

I'm too naive !!

xx