great news,
I went to casino tonight to practice for Vegas... I hope I didn't waste my good luck tonight... but ya, I 'm up 250$, which is not bad at all for only going with 40$.
I started practicing what I call additive gambling... every time I won, I added another chip to my bet. At one point my betting pile was up to 9 (5 dollar chips) and I doubled down... and won! once you lose, you start back down at one chip again.. or more if you feel lucky...
anyway,i had a lot of fun with Gareth tonight
I saw the bastard old man at the casino again... but he didn't come near!

Updates on the earlier day:
Cookie piece - this went quite well. It is possible to sing!! There's always the possibility that you will write a piece for choir that just isn't possible, but ya - the choir seemed to be ok with it. Yes there are certainly challenges, but it is a great feeling to know that something you wrote will actually come into fruition.

Recording - the session was quick, done in half an hour. The runthroughs got progressively better and I'm quite happy with the final copy that I cut and pasted together. I'm certain that it will be received very well!

So ya, basically I got the things I needed to do done today. Tomorrow there are things to do too of course. My hand is feeling better, so tomorrow, depending on how I feel after afternoon rehearsals, I just might actually do some practicing before I throw the next few days out the practice-opportunity window...
Oh ya, comments on lesson on tues. David reminded me of how to practice... not in terms of the physicality, but rather, the mental organization... As I had done last year... he pointed out that I needn't actually practice running through the pieces.. or even movements... rather there are specific small sections/cells that contain the technical problems. Overall , my Bach sounds good, but those tiny sections get in the way of the rest of it sounding perfect. This doesnt apply to memory work or speeding pieces up...but it will save me a lot of time on some of the pieces.
Thinking about it.. this week isn't a total loss. I will be able to practice wed thurs, sat and sun nights.. pending some things.. it's felt odd not having marking or composing to do the last few days... but ya, marking will be back soon, and I also have some assignments coming up for my academic course.
ANyway, enough jibber jabber
gnite