365 days!!! Tempus fugit.

Thérèse is still on holiday. Her days off seem to last forever and what is worse, she keeps on rehearsing old scenes... So I cond't even mention her abour Jacques (who has been lately off as well), and that's driving me up the walls because I cannot count on them for anything at all.

First I accepted Jacques application but after checking he's idle (that lasts now about three weeks now) I fired him from the band. Not of course, before sending him a note to make him clear what happened (I am affraid of all that people who lately died around me) and paying him €1,000-. for the inconveniences. He'll be welcome if he comes back from the dark side.

Meanwhile as written before, Thérèse was off, and I couldn't relay on her to sort this subject out and decided to look for some more bandmembers.

I thought first about Michele Chady, a cello player I met some time ago. But she gently declined my invitation to join Melissande, just as she did in the past. She told me she's living a hard time, & so I must undertand it... I must confess by other way, that I would have liked her to accept because I have known of her constancy.

Anyway... well I played some notes, just to echo... and accepted Kristen Sved in the band. She's a little too much euphoric, plays the zither and has some notions of violin...which I don't think that would be a problem for Thérèse who is an authentic virtuoso of that instrument. I hope Kristen will learn basic scene skill or else I see our place in charts sinking like an abandoned vessel. She's accountant, her mother was a famous media celeb. and she planed to go to N.Y. to study at the college but was never accepted there. Who is to blame?

I miss Francis a lot... a lot... He may be now in his way to Rio, and I have known by an excerpt of his blog that his children's mother passed away. I am so sad about them, but I am sure they will be strong enough to face this downtime.