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Andrew is home from the Ukraine and my song-planning mind is buzzing with potential. Also it's nice to have him back. It's both weird and totally normal; he was gone for two years, but I was awfully accustomed to collaborating with him in high school. Sort of like Reggie.

So he came over this evening. We fed him Dan's potato salad and half a sausage and listened to his stories about Nikolayev to start with. He brought me a present; our shared love of green rocks instigated an awesome gift of moldovite, and our shared love of interesting coins brought me some really cool kopiyok, some of which have some amazing sickle-and-hammer propaganda on them.

Once Reggie arrived, we ran recordings of the extant band rep and talked through it. We made some serious plans, in order of priority:
Cello fills on Genocide
Universe strings (harp?)
Pizz & pads on Summertime
(Bryan Mayqesue fills on I Fall Down?)
Pads/fills on Turning Around
Houston Heat May solos (Peter? or Andrew)
Write Summertime string parts besides pizz & pads
Rain string adaptation: violins-->cello
Disappear walking bass
Runaway single cello line
cello choir Intermission?


for me, exclusively:
rewrite Encouragement
rewrite Fall, Fly, Sing
record vocal counterpoint on Alchemy

So that should keep us busy.
We're going to be so awesome.