The glamorous life of a square dance caller

[cjsmith]

Writing good hard C4 choreography is slow. I keep forgetting HOW slow; perhaps I block it out of my memory.

My next big weekend is coming up in early March. I need two sessions, which will easily be sixty hours of work. I should have started in on this in January. I knew that. I even planned for that. My job intervened. (Yes, there's a lesson in there for me.) Sadly, this isn't the sort of task that's amenable to one big concentrated push. Trying to do too much at once is mind-numbing. However, it's got to be done. Rob said it well: it's like NaNoWriMo except the stuff has to be good.

The caller fee for this dance doesn't cover my airfare, much less the two days I'll have to take off work, so it would be very amusing to me to figure out just how much money I am "making" per hour writing this choreography. Negative five bucks? :-)

Comments

[lkeele.livejournal.com]

Hee! It's fun, though sometimes depressing, to do that sort of mathematics, isn't it? Negative five bucks. Perfect.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I think I'd actually be a bit sad if I knew the true number. It's not as nice as negative five, that's for sure; I'm out of paid time off at work. Let's see, post-tax pay for two days... plus the airfare, minus the pay for the dance (let's ignore the fact that I'll pay tax on that later)... hmm, it might be negative five if I take a little longer to do this prep than I thought I would. :-)