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Day One Hundred Thirty One (Year Three)

Fairly quiet music day today.

I got up pretty early, considering that I had a respite day from the usual Sunday morning activities.  Trying to recover from a cold, and succeeding at least a little bit.  I did a lot of listening this morning.  It was nice to have some time to just sit with the ipod at home, on the couch, and just kind of surf around to whatever sounded good (music pun!) to me at the moment.

I teach tomorrow.  I'm really excited to see the progress my students have made this week.  Holiday music flying around in one lesson, and in the other, I'm expecting a bit of direction on how my student wants to move forward.  Should be an interesting week from a teaching perspective.  Let's hope it's also an interesting week for me from a playing perspective.

Still waiting for the new Kasey Anderson record to arrive in the mail.  I like typing that and knowing that it will be an actual record.  I keep checking his website for updates and not finding anything.  Makes me sad.

Then again, I keep hoping that Third Eye Blind will release Ursa Minor as well.

Until then, I really need to get serious about working on my own music again.  These extended breaks I keep taking are completely unintentional, and probably not all that good for me in the long run.  More writing in December, and more progress on everything else as well.

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