office life and my tour team.

i am back in office today after two weeks on the road. it's great to see all of my co-workers again and shout out to my roommate and her dog (my dog nephew, wonderdog) who woke up when i rolled in in the wee hours of the morning to greet me and catch up on life.

i really, truly do have some of the best people in my life.

but i would be lying if i didn't say it was a struggle to sit in my chair at my desk and do the office-thing for 8.5 hours. i've said it before and, like the broken record that i am, i will say it again...i was built to live on the road. somehow an 18-hour day in a venue is less draining to me than sitting at a proper desk in a proper office during proper hours doing computer work.

on this tour i got the privilege of seeing more and learning more about actual tour management and it was incredibly interesting! well i thought it was anyway. learning little things like some states have an extra tax (wisconsin is a whopping 6%) or what an NS1 means in the production world or that there are certain rules that bus drivers are covered by in their bus union or whatever were all things i didn't know before and are crucial parts of road life.

and did you know that there's a difference between purified water and natural spring water? yeah, i didn't either and i have no preference whatsoever about which one i'm drinking in case you were wondering.

and all of those things add up to this:

i stole this picture from matt (the dude in the back in the glasses). there was a disco-ball surprise every night that made the audience gasp and that right there is the stellar team i got to work with for two weeks...there was blood, sweat, tears, laughter, chats about life at 2am on the bus, ridiculous amounts of caffeine consumed, inside jokes, friendships formed, and a collective feeling of accomplishment every night when you could tell the audience was into it and enjoying themselves. good people right there.

but now that my work day has been cut by about 10 hours i will have more time to devote to my favorite (or only, whatever) blog. i mean, it's almost the end of the year...gotta have some top 10 lists for 2015! 

xo