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Day Three Hundred Thirty Nine (Year Two)

I imported the new Cory Chisel today.  Took it with me to work on the ipod, and sold a copy to a complete stranger.  I love being able to help out a friend.  Especially someone who is as talented as Cory.

I kept going with the teaching stuff tonight.  I need to do a bit of playing before bed, if only to center myself at the end of the day.  It's been a bit of a crazy week, and I'm really needing the music right now, especially because today was the start of a 5 day run at work.

It's been so long since I've worked on the re-hashing of the blog that I've completely forgotten where it was I had gotten to in the process of going through it.  Just to be safe, I finished off October of last year tonight.  I found a few things to add to the notes that I had started taking for that project.  I figure that,  if I'm going to start teaching again, it's best to try and tie up some of those loose ends that have been hanging out there for as long as I can remember.  That way I'll have a better idea of what to focus on when the lessons actually begin.

Speaking of which, I'm not sure if I mentioned it last night or not, but I gave SL the go ahead to start making a list of potential students, seeing as I'm not up there at present to do so myself.  I think she's just going to tell people that I'll be ready to start teaching sometime in August or September.  Last I knew, there were at least 4 kids that wanted to take lessons.  Which is a start.

So that's good news, but it means I'll really have to be on my game come the end of July.  Sounds like a good challenge to me. 

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