January 6, 2005 at 1:16 PM

Yay! My luggage arrived yesterday! Now I have all the music I could possibly want to practice today...except that I have a differential geometry final tomorrow that I should be studying for. *scowl* It's not that I don't love differential geometry, it's just that...I really want to practice today! I noticed yesterday when I was doing some scales that my sightreading skills are waning because I don't look at the music when I do my finger exercises and such. I guess that's the problem when you have a tendency to memorize the lines within tens times of playing. I think I need to force myself to stare at the written form while I do exercises from now on.

On the other hand...oh, I have the most marvelous crush on Nicoló Paganini. I mean, really, who hasn't? But I acquired two recordings of one of his violin concertos and it makes me so happy I can't stop listening to it! The bravura! The cheekiness! The flirtation! The romance! I can't get enough of it. *sigh*

Well, the sooner I finish studying, the sooner I get to practice to my heart's content!

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