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Day Three Hundred Fifteen (Year Three)

Didn't end up teaching tonight.  After being sick last week, my student had to miss tonight's lesson because of illness.  It's a shame, too, I was excited to show her the picking pattern for the verses of "Set Fire To The Rain," that would help to differentiate it from the choruses (which, to my ear, need to be more fully strummed).  They're hoping to reschedule for later in the week, fingers crossed that whatever they have is easier to kick than what I've had.

Read a little bit more of the Springsteen bio tonight, but have still barely scratched the surface on that.  I'll need to shift into higher gear if I'm going to make a decent dent in it or finish it by the time it's due back.

Didn't sit down with all of the song ideas tonight, but I sat down and worked out verses on the latest of the ideas.  It's coming together slowly, but only because I haven't spent all that much time with it the last few days.  I keep saying it over and over again, but if I could ever find a way to spend an entire day locked in a room, just working on these songs, a lot of things would be shored up pretty quickly.

In other cool news, the BNL record should get here tomorrow, if the expected arrival dates are to be trusted.  Going to be pretty awesome to come home to their new disc tomorrow night!

That's really all for today.  Felt like an improvement over yesterday.  Bigger and better things tomorrow.

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