User blog comment:Rhonda the stalker fan!/Thank Yous/Updates/Other Info; One of those monthly blogs/@comment-1590625-20111211065907

I'll be a kid in your story, Rhonda. Calling me TAU should work just fine.

As far as the holiday band concert goes: I remember the feeling all too well, but two consecutive summers at a music camp where I would have to sight read music and perform it the weekend after we got it really helped out my sight reading, and thus I need to prepare considerably less on my own now. Of course, you are (likely) still a beginner/intermediate player, so you may still have to get used to the instrument and its quirks.