Wrote to the dean of a department that interests me. She wrote back in two seconds. Love that. How many times can one go to bat without hitting the ball? I press on. The course completed. It was about the music business and they based it on a book that sounded like all the music business usual suspects, which is to say like no musicians I ever learned from. The assistant for the teacher on this course, c’est moi. Sometimes, I was asked what I thought about the book but I did not want to rain on their parade. If a renovation has been green-lit and the construction crews are half way through demolishing the area, what point saying you disagree? One time the instructor asked what I thought about the author’s direction to readers about booking. He wrote when one writes to bookers of clubs, do not use capital letters in your emails. It makes one look better, as if to imply one is too busy because to use capitals they are gigging all the time. That sort of summed up everything and I realize I am in a Kurt Vonnegut story playing the role of Bob.