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I'm sitting outside a Starbucks on the campus of UB with just two hours left before my final orchestral service of the regular year. It's sunny and breezy out and I can smell the lawn smells from the campus while tired-looking Asian students walk by and two composers chat at the table opposite about how important they both are.

As of this evening, I'm going to be FREE. Free for two weeks at least, because the summer season will start up in the last week of June, and there will also be a newborn baby, plus the two other kids to take care of. But at least free from regular concerts!

Here's my June Break to-do list:

Repaint that section of our bedroom wall where J and I decided to use a stencil border and then decided it looked awful and gave up after two funny-looking stencil blobs.

Clean the mess in the basement and garage that our contractors left when they re-insulated and left massive coats of old dust and insulation all over everything.

"Re-organize" the wall art that James has been taping up all over the downstairs. I love seeing him drawing, of course, but I don't think we need to have a number system labeling each room, or six different diagrams of the solar system. He put, by the way, a For Sale sign up on the baby's nursery.

Practice the Arban book. As in, play through the entire Arban book, which I don't think I've ever done before. Kind of like reading through the Bible in a year, I suppose, except just in two weeks. And with my B-flat trumpet.

Put some sort of floral color in the front yard. Either in pots or in the ground itself, but something.

Take care of the enormous pile of mail sitting on my desk--health insurance regulatory notifications, old letters, etc.

Properly fold and put away all the dress clothes that I just tossed back into my closet in a heap at 11:30 pm when I came back from a concert.

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