* Have to write a letter to my 96-year-old Nana who's unwell and probably won't be around much longer.
* Frustrating paradox at the local tv station: Kelly, the production guy, is completely snowed under with pre-Christmas work. They should just hurry up and hire me, I could do most of the work fairly easily. But there's only one computer to use for editing and Kelly doesn't have time to supervise me during the settling-in period...
* Two tv series proposals on the go - one for a local music show which I could produce for regional tv, and one for a comedy-drama mini series which is a massive project.
* I guess I'm throwing my lot in with media-oriented work for the next year. Have to somehow make sure conservation doesn't fall by the wayside as it's ultimately more important in the long run. I've planted several native trees on the property here, does that count?
* Off to Australia again on the 22nd! What with the sudden breakup of the couple we were planning to stay with and race riots in Sydney, it should be an interesting experience. And my first Christmas away from family.
* Will also be an opportunity to finish off the new album, After Maths & Sciences. It's loosely a concept album around the idea of 'observations by a NZer in Australia' and resisting the pull of entropy - I finally got out of my country for a while. Instrumentation is banjo, computer, field recordings plus a bit of acoustic guitar and harmonica. No songs. And despite what I said in the last entry about thinking in terms of tracks rather than albums, 'Australia' is too big a concept to reduce to one track. It's also a loose template - I could potentially travel the whole world making an album in each country out of field recordings and ideas that occur to me while there.
* And regarding the gigs I was supposed to be organising for Mike & Fran early in the new year - Mike's broken his wrist! And Warwick and Damian are too vague to pin down. I should have plenty of chances to play in Nelson myself next year; part of the challenge is going to be re-learning how to function without my usual collaborators.
* One of the joys of being in the upper South Island is eating a lot of fresh berries.
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