09 march 2017
Today I meant to fill out some writer-in-residence applications, but instead spent the evening working on Sonic Pi code. I need to stop worrying about how I define myself, and just enjoy what I'm doing at the moment. And write now I am enjoying learning how to write clean code and then have that code sing back at me.
Do any of y'all work with sonic pi? I absolutely love it. This language is what got me into coding in any way at all, and so I am approaching all of this computer stuff from a strange British musical perspective. I found out today that Sonic Pi is basically ruby (or very close to ruby) and so I was able to show a song I was writing to a dev friend and he was able to give me advice on how to make it work better, even though he couldn't understand any of the actual language he was reading. It felt like If i was reading a book in french without punctuation, and I somehow knew where to put in the commas. I loved it.
I shared Sleepwalker with social media today (or at least as much as I have). It got me so excited for the show again. I get stressed with actually making it real that I forget to enjoy how cool of a thing it is that we are doing. There's so much work I put into stuff that I forget to tell people (like building webpages for every performer and writing them songs in code). It really doesn't help our reach, or help us build an audience, but it's important to me that I do it.
When I was coming home a witch friend of mine asked if I could give her a haircut and she'd happily pay. I asked if she would give a presentation about healing plants at sleepwalker as a form of payment. She instantly agreed. Then I came home and messaged my cohost that I had just traded a haircut to a witch in exchange for stage time and wanted to make sure we had room. Cohost was sooo down with this. And then I ate some homemade kraut and wrote a theme song in computer code....I don't know what strange form of life I've made for myself. But I love it.