Behind the scenes, a lot of my time has been going into the launching of my new business: Crescendo Music Australia. Last weekend, we held the first official Orientation Day for our future team members, in the Botanic Gardens on a beautiful Melbourne Spring day. It was great to get everyone together formally for the first time and talk through everything thoroughly and to get any uneasy thoughts out in the open air. We've also been madly writing procedures, guidelines, business plans and structures to make the company work, and we look forward to sharing more material on this with you very soon! We'll be announcing our 2017 season very soon.
Finally, on a personal note, for those of you don't know, I've been appreciating the presence of my relatively new girlfriend, Chloe. We've been together for just over two months now, she's a Science major and French Horn player at my uni. I made sure to prioritise her for the past few weeks, as last Sunday she headed back to the United States for three months (she's American). I was up very early last Sunday to take her to the airport for her 8am flight (even after arriving home at 2:30am with her). For those of you who know me, you'll know I'M NOT A MORNING PERSON (like, at all), and so for me to make the effort to take her to the airport on a Sunday morning after no sleep speaks volumes about just how important she is to me. She doesn't return until the 9th February next year... I'm counting down the days. I'll miss her very much.