Monday, December 14, 2009

Make Up Your Mind, Weather!

Three semesters down, five more to go.
Hooray!
After two hours of dissecting my brain, I turned in my music history final.
The very lengthy packet consisted of two essays written by yours truly, a packet of five unknown scores, two extra-credit scores, my analysis of said scores, and a listening exam (which I decided to drop and so turned in blank).
Whew!

Tali and I enjoyed a delicious lunch at Cracker Barrel. Apparently she'd been craving their french toast with blackberry sauce since July. She enjoyed it very much. I chose a "vegetable" plate with green beens, macaroni and cheese, fried apples, and cornbread dressing (which I tried for the first time). Four hours later I'm still stuffed. Yes, this coming from the girl who is starving every two hours!

I got back to practicing this afternoon.
This past week I've had the hardest time practicing, not because of a lack of motivation, but because my piano sounds bad! I had it tuned just two months ago, and it should not be out of tune the way it is. I'm not scheduled for another tuning until February. Ahh! It's driving me so crazy that I had to stop practicing and come blog about it. Ha ha!
Even the dissonances of Prokofiev sound beyond dissonant.

I called my faithful piano tuner for answers. No, I'm not going crazy and no, my piano isn't dying.
Evidently, it's the weather.
Florida can't make up its mind. All this hot/cold/hot/cold, AC/no AC thing has taken its toll on my poor baby. I'm about ready to throttle the weather if only I knew how. Or I'd just send him the bill. After all, piano tunings aren't inexpensive.

2 comments:

  1. Yay! I hope you are able to get a little break over the next couple of weeks. You deserve some R and R!

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  2. Congratulations on making it through another semester! *toasts* =D

    Sorry you have to tune your piano. =( It never would have occurred to me that pianos are affected by the weather...

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