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Day Thirty Six (Year Three)

I avoided dealing with the turntable at all costs today.  Maybe tomorrow I'll pick up the fight again, we shall see.  What's funny right now is that I swear I saw a 1/4" adapter in one of the boxes that's left in the house, told myself where it was, and then proceeded to forget about it entirely.

I listened to about half of that Regina Spektor interview on NPR.com today.  I'll finish it up tomorrow during the day.

Overheard SL's side of a conversation today with the mother of the girl I start teaching guitar to next week.  From what I could gather, she's really excited about lessons.  So am I.  It's been a long time since I've taught, but I think it'll go well.  Tomorrow I need to start focusing in on playing again, so I go into the first run of lessons in good shape.  The other thing I need to start doing is planning out how I'm going to structure the first couple of lessons.  I'm pretty sure that the first one is just going to be your basic "what are you looking to get out of lessons?" discussion with a bit of playing thrown in somewhere near the end.  We shall see.

It'll be good to get back to some studying and some practicing tomorrow.  I can't wait!

One more note on the teaching before I hang it up for the night:  There are two more potential students out there right now, which could bring the total to 4!

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  1. UnknownAugust 31, 2012 at 7:34 PM

    Yay! 4 Students! sorry about the internet business, that crap can get old real fast. Sounds like you're getting settled in nicely, hope to see you here in a few days, Rock bottom still a possible plan?

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