2 posts tagged “letters”

You know, you've always been a person that I quite admired, as a person and as a musician, but you are starting to bug me.  Okay, to be honest you have bugged me in the past, too, but I have always forgiven you for it because, as I stated, I like and admire you.

But this time, it bugs me that instead of taking action, you simply avoid issues until they resolve themselves, and not necessarily in the best way. 

For example, you know those five songs that you needed to arrange in 3-part harmony, but you didn't because you thought that somehow these arrangements should have been provided by someone else?  And now you have three girls trying to learn them with only 5 weeks in which to do it, and two of them can't even sing harmonies.  And instead of coming up with some vague ideas for harmonies you are sitting there and expecting these girls to somehow extract them from thin air.  And then when the one who *can* sing harmonies *is* able to come up with a lower harmony you don't offer any feedback and rush over the bits she is actually having trouble with.

This is what bugs me.  And it especially bugs me because the one who *can* sing harmonies is actually me.  And especially because I know I will spend a part of my weekend doing your job.

You know what else bugs me?  That you were instrumental in selecting these other two girls to sing close harmonies when they can't actually do it.  Who knows what would have happened if the third girl that you originally chose (the one pulled out and that I was called in to replace) had stayed in it because by all accounts *she* couldn't sing harmonies either.

And another thing.  It would be nice if, when someone else has gone to the trouble of digging up arrangements for you to use and then emailed them to you so you could look them over before rehearsals, you actually bothered to acknowledge their efforts.  It's really shitty to ignore it.  Especially when that someone is actually me.

One last thing.  Do you actually have a problem recalling names and faces or something?  Because when someone has known and worked with you for eight years, it's just plain weird to treat them like a stranger.  Especially when that someone is actually me.  But I guess it would explain why you don't acknowledge emails.  You probably think they are spam.

Yours sincerely,

Me

You know, you have a million things to do.  Well, perhaps not a million, but many.  Many, many, even.

You have lectures to listen to.  You have course notes to read.  You have music that needs to be revised and reviewed before you record in less than 2 weeks.  You have 5 other songs for which you need to establish harmonies for yet another musical project.  You have a trivia night to organise.  You have invitations to birthday parties to be sent out.  And let's not even start on the essential stuff that you are supposed to be doing anyway - say, for example, those huge piles of folded clothes that are sitting right NEXT TO YOU that could quite easily be CARRIED TO THE APPROPRIATE ROOMS AND PUT AWAY!

Ha.  Well, at least I've shamed you into doing that.

Look, I know you're tired.  I know that you are inherently disorganised and that's probably not really your fault.  Well, actually it is, but you are dealing with the nappy brain and associated forgetfulness (so, like, I won't even mention that you went shopping this morning while you were out doing a few odd jobs and that you drove halfway across Sydney before you realised that you had left your purchases in the supermarket, okay?), so I'll take it easy on you.

But seriously.  You've got all this other crap to be done and what are you doing?  A virtual makeover.  Dude, I know that some of the haircuts are hilarious and all, but that's no excuse.  You. are. wasting. my. time.

Pull yourself together woman.

Yours sincerely,

Me