June 9, 2003 at 2:19 PM

Ah,I finally am having a productive, motivated practice after two days of feeling completely useless. I even contemplated why I was trying to go to a conservatory yesterday..but all that has passed, thank God. I have days like that once in awhile. I spent an hour warming up with Simon Fisher (ahhhh), scales in 3 and 4 ocataves, and bow exercises. Then I did some Rode and Dont Caprices, which forgive me, are fun, and I can feel my octave and shifting going so much more smoothly. So then for the second hour I worked on both mvvmts of the bach. I worked backwards through the piece on really nitpicky things. But guess what? at the end of the hour, I decided to try to play thru both mvmts straight, because I am having problems with endurance, and, tada, I made it! and it wasnt sloppy at all! yea! O, well, I am on my 10 minute break, and I have 2 more hours, but that never seems like much....

chloe