{"id":70,"date":"2009-07-27T00:40:48","date_gmt":"2009-07-26T23:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=70"},"modified":"2017-12-23T17:45:39","modified_gmt":"2017-12-23T17:45:39","slug":"right-now-right-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2009\/07\/27\/right-now-right-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Right Now Right here"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_58\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-58\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Album-cover1.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"58\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2009\/07\/27\/right-now-right-here\/album-cover1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Album-cover1.jpg?fit=264%2C306&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"264,306\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Album-cover1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Album-cover1.jpg?fit=258%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Album-cover1.jpg?fit=264%2C306&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-58\" style=\"margin: 2px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"Album-cover1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Album-cover1-150x150.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" alt=\"Album-cover1\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-58\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Just me<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Things are not quite going the way I expected on the whole.It&#8217;s coming up to 2 year&#8217;s \u00a0since I left the Civil Service and nothing has gone as I planed. I have learned a lot and mostly I feel less stressed and apart from a few minor lows I have not had any re-occurrence of serious depression but the plans I hoped to put in to action to support myself have flopped quite badly.<\/p>\n<p>I have achieved quite a few things that I am proud of including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>National Radio play for one of my Glass Cage songs<\/li>\n<li>Local radio play for Elephant Shelf<\/li>\n<li>Performing in a fringe festival<\/li>\n<li>Performing regularly as an accompanist in a west end venue<\/li>\n<li>Singing lead vocals live with a band regularly<\/li>\n<li>Telling\u00a0 jokes as part of the duo act<\/li>\n<li>Recording and mastering a CD for Elephant Shelf \u00a0and getting 1100 pressed<\/li>\n<li>Playing at some very well known and respected venues<\/li>\n<li>Joining PRS<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I could go on, its been quite a learning curve so on a personal level it&#8217;s been good and worth doing but financially its not going well.<br \/>\nI had hoped to do some IT freelancing but on the last project I got unwell and had to stop though ironically I seem to be functioning better than ever now. But I fall apart under any sort of pressure. There has to be something that I can do to make up the short fall financially without cracking up again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things are not quite going the way I expected on the whole.It&#8217;s coming up to 2 year&#8217;s \u00a0since I left the Civil Service and nothing has gone as I planed. I have learned a lot and mostly I feel less stressed and apart from a few minor lows I have not had any re-occurrence of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2009\/07\/27\/right-now-right-here\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Right Now Right here<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"status","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[265],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-status","hentry","category-history","tag-history","post_format-post-format-status"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-18","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":54278,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2016\/09\/17\/anatomy-of-an-a-average-gig\/","url_meta":{"origin":70,"position":0},"title":"Anatomy of an a average gig","author":"diana Stone","date":"September 17, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Most \u00a0weekends for me go like this. Gig on Friday Gig on Saturday and Gig on Sunday. Some times there is one in the week as well. So its a bit like a rotating shift pattern. 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