Oh my gosh. My heart brims with joy!!! Thank you so much for everything you wrote!!! I'm pretty sure when he said "let's talk again soon" I *probably* validated or mirrored that, but I honestly don't remember!!!
I feel like I would need to create some "pretext" to call, or maybe send him something so he would have a reason to call me to thank me for it?
I had a couple ideas:
-Send him a postcard that says, "congratulations on playing with XYZ [name of prestigious ensemble]! That's great news! And I'm so impressed that you were cracking jokes with [extremely famous coposer] John Zorn... You are living large, living the dream! Way to go, B! -T" so that would be encouraging and supportive, but not necessarily encourage a response.
-We both read this magazine called "the week" and a week or two ago it had a little story about the tornado in my neighborhood ATL right next to a story about a construction crane collapsing in his neighborhood in NYC. I could clip it and put in a note like, "WTF?? Why are we living in such dangerous neighborhoods?? Do we need to start wearing helmets all day long? When I read this I feared for your noggin!" Or something like that. ???
-Since the phone worked so well, I should probably "do more of what works"?
-I could ask him for advice about something...?? I have to make a decision in the next two weeks about which festivals I am going to, I could pretend to believe that he would have inside information on that....??? In the past I definitely would have saught his input in my decision making, so it wouldn't be much of a 180.
-try to meet him in person (see above post)
I feel like we just fast forwarded through the 2-4 months I was expecting to have to spend just doing stuff via the mail. I am SO glad that you guys encouraged me to call him on the phone! The phone IS great!!
OK stumach is grumbling, gotta get to school. More later!! I feel my imagination is somewhat limited right now. I am totally open to your ideas!!
