Thanks to our early start, we caught a train into downtown DC without further incident, which allowed us to reach our destination almost two hours early. The bonus of this? A surprise celeb spotting! Hard to tell, but that little white-haired man on his cell is none other than every one's favorite journalist, Anderson Cooper!!!
We had arranged to watch the swearing in ceremony as well as the parade from the safety of an Architecture firm. This was the view of the parade route from the office window...
After all of the festivities has died down, my boyfriend and I took to the streets once again and had some dinner before returning to our own little Inauguration party back at the firm.
During the party, which was rather tame, I had a chance to sit down with a good song-writing acquaintance of mine. I had hoped for an opportunity to sit down with him to discuss the process of composing music and writing musicals, for quite some time, and it just so happened that such an opportunity arose this evening. I asked him to shed some light on his methods and how he sets stories to song and gets things in motion. It was quite helpful to me to hear what he had to say about composing musicals, because that is something that I want to do so very badly. It just seems like such a daunting task.
In talking to my friend, I learned that like so many things, the learning is in the doing - and you just have to start somewhere. Write what you know.
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