DAY JOB OR NIGHT
Blog Post after Concert at Dino´s Beach Bar, Tofo Beach, on September 7th, 2024
What happens is that you spend the whole morning filing reports, planning trainings, drafting terms of reference and budgets. You like words and figures, they like you back, everything seems fine but every two hours, you take a break and grab that ukulele standing in the office´s corner. You close the door. Softly, quietly, you touch and hum some notes in your head voice. This is the best warm-up. 30 to 40 minutes, 3 songs, and you are back to protocols.
What happens next is you receive afternoon calls. Tons of them. From day job colleagues who are late. From night job colleagues who care. You´ve done your publicity, event is on. You´ve prepared the equipment. When time comes, you jump in the car and drive fast, skip your family, go straight to the scene of your future crime.
Next, you are singing. Women dancing. Men drinking. You are having a drink or two as well, to forget you haven´t slept for a week. A woman you know comes and says she was in bed with her period, but took a pill and decided to come to the concert to see you. It reminds me that I need to plan a staff training on women menstruations tomorrow. Then I sing that last Michael Jackson chorus. Tonight the voice hasn´t given up. Pretty sure it would have drowned out with more practice, so I will thank my files and reports tomorrow.
The way it ends - could go wrong in many ways. You could forget a cable. Load the wrong car. Break the car. Lose your phone. Not receive your money. Let bills go with drinks for girls on the band´s tab. If you don´t pay attention, you could end up in somebody´s arms, or in the bush somewhere. You could decide to smoke again, let adrenaline go. You could come back home at 4 am and hear your kid ask: ´pai ?´ while you take a shower and change clothes.
But it does not end like that. Files and Reports are waiting, thank god and man-eaters all alike ! You still have time to sleep and kiss your wife and bring your kid to school. How to complain ? The day is beautiful. Music is buzzing a bit in your ears, but Files and Reports will be here, always here, standing as firm as the new sun shining on your desk when you open the door. Don´t worry, they are here. And they will take care of you.
