tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19928946.post8940861220308140958..comments2023-04-16T09:57:06.336-04:00Comments on furthermore, flask: threadbare excusesflaskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02926786246931651655noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19928946.post-14916427862789477772010-11-15T11:38:21.083-05:002010-11-15T11:38:21.083-05:00it's kind of you to say that i'm talented,...it's kind of you to say that i'm talented, but you still don't know what i do for a living.<br /><br />the unvarnished truth is that until i lost the last medication available to me to control my unusually severe manic-depression, i was a middle school music teacher.<br /><br />i managed to hang on for twenty years before i finally caved to it.<br /><br />what i know about music publishing i know because i'm a classically trained composer, and submission guidelines is one of the things they talk about along with fugue subjects.<br /><br />i am also preparing manuscripts for publication, which is a thing i hope will bear fruit, because if you can get a publisher to pick you up for a handful of pieces every year, you can buy groceries and maybe pay that mortgage depending on how well you sell.<br /><br />if you can do that, they don't care how much crazy sits on you on your bad days, as long as you keep cranking out the tunes.<br /><br />since this has not yet happened for me, what i actually do for a living is live off of disability retirement, since even though i have good days or even strings of good days, i can't be depended on not to be crying so hard i can't stand up and that just makes it really hard to show up for a job, you know?flaskhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02926786246931651655noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19928946.post-16418476877169499572010-11-14T22:27:37.277-05:002010-11-14T22:27:37.277-05:00It's funny--up until now I had no idea what yo...It's funny--up until now I had no idea what you did for a living. I checked it out--you're rather talented my friend.Challishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07352641774308947072noreply@blogger.com