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May 18, 2005 at 11:45 AM

Another wet day. Luckily I had a later start so I wasn't caught in traffic.

Got a couple of hours of practice this morning - scales and etudes, and then some Bach. It's starting to come along, but still a long way to go.

During my break in the middle of the day, I went to see my mum in hospital. She's doing well and was happy to see me. I probably won't be able to see her again before she comes out, so she'll be glad I made the effort.

I got back to uni and practiced my Suk. I'm really happy with how it's progressing. I worked on the middle section, just doing some musical ideas - playing with vibrato and dynamics etc. I was happy with it. I found someone outside and played it for them. They said that the middle section was better, that the musical ideas were flowing better, and that my bow changes were hardly audible. Excellent! That just means I need to do some work on the musical ideas in the first part (which is the same as the last part) and that should be excellent. I'm practicing it every day in a hope to get it ready for performance at Concert practice next week. Not that I'm not practicing my other pieces every day, it's just some days I don't get as much time to practice, so they kind of get rushed through :)

I should be at work right now, but when I got home, I was feeling rather unwell. I think I had too much seafood salad for lunch. I figured I should just stay home and keep well. Hopefully I should have enough money for the week.

I'll still go to Star Wars tonight - wouldn't miss that for the world!

Well, I think I'm up for a bit of a drink, some juice (no vodka this time ;) hehe, hey, ever think that if there was a punctuation sign that had a , and another one on top but upside down, how evil it would look? Just me? ok)

Please let us know what you think of the new Star Wars film.