Decision Made: No Big Band.
It’s a shame, really. It’s absolutely the best band in the jazz program. They blew my mind at their concert this year. The problem is, my other classes are arranged at such a time that in order to take band, I have to wait around for a little over an hour. I’m also tasked with getting 40 hours per week at my actual job, as well as school, so basically, that means this three-hour class ends up costing me almost 8 hours of day-time hours.
So, that would mean I’d be at my office later in the day, which would mean it would be much harder to get in the practice that is my first non-parenting responsibility.
Upshot: I’ll be in a jazz combo, and that will be it for performance. So, that means I just need to make sure I book some extra gigs for the band this semester, and I absolutely MUST get no less than 2 hours practice per day.