I Thought We Were Through With This ...

Sorry I missed yesterday - Wife stayed home sick. She arguably had a better day than I did.

It turns out I am not quite the judge of character I had hoped I was. Yesterday morning was a planned road trip for bandmates JD, MG and myself up to Fredericksburg to check out some new gear, upgrading our PA and lights for the upcoming year. JD arrives first, and promptly shows me an email he received from AV, our chick singer. She has flipped out again and quit the band. Second time this month. Glad we aren't playing tonight - not sure what's going on for next week yet.

Now I liked AV, and was arguably one of her strongest supporters when she came into the band, based largely on my perception of her stability and professionalism. Clearly I was mistaken. At the risk of playing armchair psychologist, she seems to have some major insecurity and trust issues, undoubtedly stemming from her recent divorce (at age 28). About 90% of what she has freaked out over is entirely imaginary; the final straw was an ad she saw on craig's list for a band looking for a singer, which she assumed to be us surreptitiously trying to replace her. Obviously, it wasn't; but in her mind it was JD or MG, using a fake name and phone number she didn't recognize - classic conspiracy-theorist paranoia. I know people get crazy around the holidays, particularly fresh divorcees, surrounded by family and memories of what is no more, but this is ridiculous. We had no intention of throwing her under the bus, regardless of whatever overwrought scenario she fabricated for herself.

Bah.

My next task, as the One Stuck In The Middle, is to convince the new bass player not to bolt with her - he had rather become her teammate in the recent Us vs. Them stalemate I mentioned earlier. The biggest challenge in convincing him to stay is, frankly, convincing myself to stay. I am quickly losing patience with these amateur psychos, and not at all looking forward to the prospect of having to audition yet another one.

Enough of this - Happy Friday, have a great weekend, and prospero año nuevo