Food again...

My main job right now is practicing and teaching. I recently enrolled myself in orchestral excerpt boot camp. Never in a million years did I think I would actually be trying to do this, but you know...sometimes things take you by surprise. Unfortunately, I am super out of shape and learning orchestral excerpts is a feat all by itself. Also, unfortunately, the last concerto I learned really well is not standard and is working against me. So, I started working on a new one, a really standard one...as in everyone plays it.
More than likely, it will take me about a year to be ready for a high stake audition. In the meantime, learning the excerpts, the two concertos (Mozart 5 and Sibelius), and working on Bach takes up most of my day. Teaching in the afternoon keeps me busy and the occasional gig keeps me traveling and learning even more music. So far I've taken two regional orchestra auditions. I got one, didn't get the other one. However, I was super sick for the one I didn't get and had never played two of the excerpts before in an audition. It still discourages me though. Sure, I need to look at the situation realistically. I have never been coached or given extensive lessons on orchestral music/excerpts/yada yada... Now I am. It takes time. I can't just have my first coaching on Don Juan and then expect to win an audition the next weekend? Yeah? I guess...It still makes me sad.
Oh well, I got that other one right?
Here's the other thing: I have started trying to make my food really pretty. Sometimes, my salads are beautiful, other times they are not so much. For some reason, maybe boredom, maybe too many hits with the metronome, I take pictures of the food I make.
I think this blog is going to catalog my preparation processes in food making and audition taking. Related? Maybe. Maybe not. Only time will tell.
Also, our wedding is really sneaking up on us! So many details. So little time.