The life of any musician really doesn't fall into a normal schedule at all. Every week there are different rehearsals, different days and nights of performances, so we don't have a particular pattern that we can follow. For a conductor, it is a little bit worse because we have to allow for traveling.
D. C. is a hard city to grow up in. I couldn't find my footing there. Also, I got a late start academically, and I was dyslexic.