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post Jan 18 2012, 05:49 PM
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QUOTE(lottie @ Jan 18 2012, 04:36 PM) *

aaaaaaaaaggghhh!!!!

I've just found out you have to register before you can enter for an exam online!!! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ohmy.gif)

AND it can take "up to 48hours" for ABRSM to process that registration and the CLOSING DATE IS FRIDAY!!!!


That's only 48 hours too - I may not get my 'registration' back from them in time (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ohmy.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wacko.gif)

I don't think online entry closes until midnight on Friday which means you had almost 56 and a half hours from when you made this post...
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post Jan 18 2012, 06:25 PM
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#!%$&"*!

%*?()^?@#

%&"^?!

there. that's better.
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post Jan 18 2012, 09:17 PM
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Oh dear Corenfa, whats all that for ? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/thereThere.gif)
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post Jan 18 2012, 09:31 PM
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post Jan 19 2012, 08:29 AM
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Just found out that the unfortunate soul who was so unhappy with his life as to jump in front of the evening train last week was the brother of one of my school friends. So sad for her and her family.
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QUOTE(Little Elf @ Jan 19 2012, 08:29 AM) *

Just found out that the unfortunate soul who was so unhappy with his life as to jump in front of the evening train last week was the brother of one of my school friends. So sad for her and her family.


That is awful. I really feel for his family as they will be agonising over this for years to come.

I was on a high speed train just north of Dunbar (in southern Scotland) when someone walked in front at a remote level crossing. His car was parked beside the road there, so it was clearly a pre-meditated act. It was a beautiful spring day; the sort of day that made me feel glad to be alive. I suppose we can only guess at what goes through the minds of people who feel there is no other option but to take their own lives. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mellow.gif)

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QUOTE(Swell Box @ Jan 19 2012, 08:42 AM) *

I was on a high speed train just north of Dunbar (in southern Scotland) when someone walked in front at a remote level crossing. His car was parked beside the road there, so it was clearly a pre-meditated act. It was a beautiful spring day; the sort of day that made me feel glad to be alive. I suppose we can only guess at what goes through the minds of people who feel there is no other option but to take their own lives. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mellow.gif)

I used to get cross when I was caught up in the commuting aftermath of such incidents; that changed when the son of a couple of members of our choir committed suicide by stepping in front of a train. The overwhelming sadness of the entire family at the funeral and the accounts of how desperate the young man (who I knew slightly) must have been as a result of the depression which caused him to take his own life, caused me to change my mind. It's not an act of selfishness at all, just the tragic end to feeling that life isn't worth living.

Since then, a couple of my closest friends have been through bouts of depression. I've tried to do my best for them - be there if they need to talk, encourage them to take one day at a time, offer hugs - but above all to seek professional help.
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Unfortunately sometimes even all the professional help in the world makes no difference. A dear friend chose to end it all some years ago and she was doing all the right things- had friends, had professional help, had medication. Nobody knew what the specific trigger was; I think she just got tired of dealing with everything. I know that there were many other times she had thought of it, and went to talk to someone - why didn't she that time? We'll never know.

(Of course, I do not mean the above to indicate that one should not seek professional help. It was just a trigger for a specific memory)

I wish she was still around because I would love to talk to her about piano. She was a late-returner to piano like I am now, and we did a lot of chamber music together. I was trying to convince her to move here because she was in a situation where she was that was hard to get out of and I thought physically not being there would help. I still wonder if I'd managed, would she have been here now, but I don't give myself a hard time about it, I just wonder.
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I spent an hour or so this morning putting exam marks onto our new university computer system* and was somewhat puzzled, when I tried to do my last class, that the students already had marks were which weren't mine...

I e-mailed the administrative member of staff responsible for the system, who hasn't replied and a couple of colleagues who have replied and it seems that the system hasn't been set up properly. Instead of having access to the individual marks' column we have been given access to the final mark column, so the student gets as an "average" mark the mark of the first person to put a mark in and this then blocks access to everyone else (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wacko.gif)

*The previous system was pen and paper
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Weds: up early, go to London for a couple of meetings
Thurs: all day conference. Stultifying tedium would be an improvement (newish senior execs who think they've invented the wheel (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wacko.gif) )
Fri: conference continues. Have to then pack up desk for an office move (to a different building on campus)

Not sure when I'm supposed to do the day job...... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif)
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Why do all my pupils lose the ability to play, the moment the exam entries have gone in..?

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QUOTE(willobie @ Jan 20 2012, 11:12 PM) *

Why do all my pupils lose the ability to play, the moment the exam entries have gone in..?

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It was ever thus...
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QUOTE(willobie @ Jan 20 2012, 11:12 PM) *

Why do all my pupils lose the ability to play, the moment the exam entries have gone in..?

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Mine have that problem too! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)
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post Jan 21 2012, 09:11 AM
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QUOTE(willobie @ Jan 20 2012, 11:12 PM) *

Why do all my pupils lose the ability to play, the moment the exam entries have gone in..?

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But this has just happened to ME!!!! I entered my exam yesterday and now feel slightly sick every time I think about it!!!!

Even to the extent I didn't practice yesterday (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ohmy.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blush.gif) .... but I'm away to do my scales this morning (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)


Promise.....
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post Jan 21 2012, 10:51 AM
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QUOTE(willobie @ Jan 20 2012, 11:12 PM) *

Why do all my pupils lose the ability to play, the moment the exam entries have gone in..?

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Me too. Last week I was confident they would be okay to enter for the exam, so did so. This week one of them couldn't even find the first note of each of her pieces and the other one had forgotten all her scales!!
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