not playing much in the week, weakens your embouchure !! and makes rehearsals more difficult

it's become later than I had planned... but at least the place is peaceful now..and very quiet
time flies when you are enjoying yourself -

well, it's only a little scream

just look at what has happened to the FTSE
an artificial boost from Prudence and now it's gone back to the probs he created.... more

At the rate of four posts in a row that nobody has shown any interest in you may as well post a whole thread...

arggggg

I missed all my seminars today due to illnes... I'm so sick of being 'unwell' grrrrrrrrrrr

and your point in posting personal remarks is ...??

Two days off work with a migraine.

Now back in office.

To sixty-nine emails! Looks like they have changed their minds about everything since Tuesday. Though half of the emails seem to just be forwarding me 'comments', not telling me whether or not to implement what the comments say or ignore them! Still, in a few hours they'll be in (they are all in the US) and we'll see if we can untangle it all.

No wonder I get the damn headaches!!

Think I definately need to have a scream!!!

I've had two bad weeks in a row. My tutor at uni keeps contradicting herself as to what I can do for my final major project (which is worth 50% of this year!!). I want to do a recital around a certain genre and she keeps saying I can't even though in the course module it clearly states that I can!!! grrrrr

Aaaaarrrrrrrgggggghhhhh

Just got back from one of my delightful lunchtime recorder group visits. Year 1s of a rather effervescent nature.

While I was there I had the worst tickly cough I can ever remember, just couldn't get it to stop. Ended up with the children staring at me as my eyes streamed and I kept on coughing.

Eventually managed to get my water bottle out and have a sip of water, but started coughing again while the bottle was up, and so ended up with a large amount of water down my front.....

Cleaned that mess up, managed to finish the lesson, stopped off at the supermarket on the way back for some cough sweets and a few other bits of groceries.

As I got to the front door, I heard the phone ring. Hurried to answer it, tripped and watched as everything in my hands went flying.

First to land was my CD player - not checked yet how much it is damaged, but I wouldn't rate its chances given that the next thing to land was a half-litre pot of natural yoghurt. Which created an impressive puddle on the carpet that then transferred to me as I landed in it.

I have now changed out of my yoghurt and water stained ensemble, had some high-carbohydrate comfort food and am wondering who the telephone caller was. But as they left neither a number nor a message I guess I'll never know.

Lots of sympathy and understanding KJ.....
so sorry for that sequence of horrors

dare I say that you told it all in an 'entertaining' way... no fun at the time, but thanks for inducing a smile (of the caring sympathetic kind)

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!

Just been to Tesco. When unloading basket onto checkout belt, my last item - the plastic top jumped off blueberries and they spilled everywhere on the belt and and rolled all over the floor. Some got trodden on by those behind me.
They all laughed. OK so did I. But they were then made to go and queue at another checkout whilst the area was cleaned up ! I laughed even more ! I got away with it 'cos an assistant fetched me another punnet - I paid up and ran for it.

Arrrgghhh indeed

Think you deserve a rest katyjay...

Really bad luck Katyjay - what a sequence !

First to land was my CD player - not checked yet how much it is damaged, but I wouldn't rate its chances given that the next thing to land was a half-litre pot of natural yoghurt. Which created an impressive puddle on the carpet that then transferred to me as I landed in it.

Faint echoes here of that old sketch 'the Bricklayer', no ?

Anyone else old enough to remember it ?

Yay! Gerard Hoffnungs escapade in a builders bucket ! Must be on the web somewhere, I'll have a look !


Later edit www.monologues.co.uk/004/bricklayers_story.htm

no scream today

Thanks so much for this, fsharpminor! It brought back some happy memories and it was good to be able to read it again.

Thanks f#minor - although I think this version is nearer the one I remember ...

http://www.ahajokes.com/fp057.html

Can't agree with you there, maggiemay. The Hoffnung version is the one I remember.

oddly enough,I didn't associate it with Hoffnung at all, although the gist is the same.

The bit about the hurricane was definitely different !

weather looks rough now ... but dry just now

thought of signing in, but actually it hasn't been a scream day at all....

audition at rncm (please see other topics for dates, if interested).

very nervous.....

Hope it goes well for you

Not feeling well. Waited an hour to see a doctor last night, but they sent me elsewhere. Very cold, as have no heating. Being very cold making me feel worse. Had to get up early, despite not feeling well and being cold, as people are supposed to be coming to fix heating. Having reluctantly got up v early, have now been sitting waiting for them to turn up, feeling ill and cold, for three quarters of an hour.

Poor Czerny!

Let's hope they turn up soon.

But sitting still won't warm you up! Why not get on with some housework or something?

Don't feel well enough to do housework.

Aw!

Well, you could always make some room in your inbox for starters...

Ow. And still no heating.

Some people are never happy unless they're moaning!

grrr
saddened and upset by the dodgy "wobbly"... incorrect spelling that comes up in the CISD... dear oh dear.
Maybe the 'Spelling Help Please' should be moved to the Cafe area

One of the boys I helped to teach in English last year was killed a few days ago. Have just been reading an interview with someone who saw the whole thing... Brought it back a bit.

And on a different scale - Argh! at a certain rail company!!

That's awful...very sorry to hear that...

I'm so sorry Miss Ross.

but what a nice week it has been, mostly

I've just felt rather down this week. I've just been thinking about careers etc.
I've just been feeling music isn't for me, and always just feel second best to someone else i know, and think it would just be easier to take another route. I love medieval history and french, so would like to do something with those subjects. I don't know!

Jacob.

Jacob, I can really empathise with you. I've felt that way to a great extent over the last few months, to the point where I more or less stopped playing/composing completely and found it hard to even listen to music. At the moment I'm looking into courses in I'm even more interested in, Gaelic and Divinity to name the 2 front-runners.
However, it might help you to perhaps not compare yourself to the other person, and to try to recognise that you are a talented musician in your own right.

And I in turn have been feeling the same. My main problem is probably that I may have pinned slightly too much on music over the last few years. I feel I ought to do other things anyway, for fear of being completely one-dimensional.

Sorry to hear that the three of you are feeling less enthusiastic about your music than in earlier times. I think that unless you have an enormous amount of drive and determination to succeed in the music field, it's best kept as a hobby. That way you can just enjoy it without worrying about whether someone else is better than you (someone always is!).

Matthew, I'm sure that imminent grade 8 piano exam can't be helping - it's enough to put anyone off music, although it's a hurdle you need to get over. Miss Ross, have you abandoned your university course then?

Don't forget that whatever subject you choose, others will be better than you! It just seems to matter less, somehow, when it isn't music. I hope you all start to enjoy music-making again very soon; it's such a wonderful hobby when you don't feel pressure to always be the best.

arghhh!
x

AAARRRGGGHHHHH






Are you ok maddielou??

It's clear a few posters are losing enthusiasm for music, and now feel it may not be for you as a career. This has been happening for years. At age 17 in 1964, having alread got an ALCM on piano and a good Grade 8 on organ, I felt exactly the same. IT bugged me for ages, and I could have screamed! I went off to Uni to read Chemistry ! That industry has provided me with a successful career. But I have always remained very active in music, and I cannot explain how much pleasure I have had from it, and without having to perform under pressure or do more exams or practise hours a day. Professional music is maybe not for everyone.
My daughter took the same view, she has Grade 8's on violin and piano, but has a career based on her M.Sc in statistics. I am still in touch with a guy (PhD in Physics, working in electronics) with whom I formed a violin/piano duo at Uni.
We have two or three doctors and a dentist on here with high musical standards, and Im sure many other professions too.
I guess the real problem is actually coming to the decision to 'do something else', when for several years you have expected to go into the music profession. Im nor sure what causes this sort of feeling, in my case I think it was a lack of self-confidence that I was not good enough to be a performer, and would end up teaching (for which I really wouldnt have had the patience!).
So I hope all you doubters the best of luck in coming to the right decision (whichever way).

AAAARGHHH! I still have freshers' flu, even now, four weeks in, and I can't even speak! I have my first lesson with a new singing teacher tomorrow and I can't cancel the very first! GRRR!

Well, maybe you could text/email and say you have lost your voice but you could go along to discuss options. Glad you're still singing thouhgh. Make sure you get plenty of rest xx

Arghh, I'm unwell but I need every spare moment I've got to prepare for my Grade 7. Haven't got time to be unwell.

I think I will... but I'm still sort of holding out hope for a miraculous recovery... Maybe a few nights in will fix it for next time anyway... Thanks Nicki.

Amber, that's so rubbish! I hope you feel better soon.

I played your YouTube/Leeds clips to some friends the other day and they thought you had a beautiful voice. I'm sure you'll do well

Hope your health improves soon


edit:

In fact I'll post a link to your solo clip and you can remind yourself what lovely pure voice you have
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=bEf-9CX2M8c

Hate exams. Had a piano one today. Went so wrong. Just waiting for that phonecall from my teacher to say retake in January now.

*hugs* Hope the result is better than you're expecting.

I can really empathise. I'm sure you'll have done better than it seemed at the time...