I have been having odd nightmares lately. For those (15 of you reading) who don't know, I have picked up a hip-hop group as my very first client as an independent publicist. We are throwing an album release party this coming Saturday night and I am tasked with ensuring we get some media to attend. As this is my first attempt at music publicity, and while I love Mos Def as much as the next person, I am no hip-hop head and this is all very new to me. I had to call my client very after-hours to check in, more for myself, to make sure they are happy with my work thus far. Truthfully, I'm nervous. And that nervousness has manifested itself in my dreams. One nightmare kept waking me as Google alerts, press releases and e-mails swirled through my head.
Yesterday my Shabbos nap turned into a daymare as I dreamt I lost my laptop and my client files weren't backed up. I panicked that I would have to start my media lists from scratch and would have to search through old e-mails. Am I too vested in my work? That wasn't all; I realized I lost my laptop while in a Judaism class I was taking, apparently in addition to my copyediting class which I really am taking in reality. The professor wrote a note for me on one of my assignments asking me if I was working for a Hillel or something and asked why I was taking the class. How could I have even crafted an answer when media lists were controlling my brain and I had a virtual crisis?
Well, today I am speaking some Hebrew phrases on the concept of passing time over a track my friend/client is recording. Pretty nifty huh? Maybe I am entering a whole new stage of life, or something like that. I still need to motivate to find a full-time gig. But it's so wonderful that my show is in an open-ended run and we are traveling once a month. South Beach, here we come! And Chicago too. Maybe Israel can even be in the cards?
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