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Day One Hundred Thirty Nine (Year Three)

Taught today.  My lesson went really well.  This student of mine is picking things up really quickly.  She's getting better at learning her notes, and is doing better with holding her instrument the right way.  She's still running into a few issues with getting notes to ring well, but that will work itself out shortly, I think.

As for my lesson tomorrow night, I finally got in touch with my brother tonight regarding some of the songs that are on my student's list, and he had 6 of the songs that she listed!  This means that without going through my collection all that much, I'm already up to 14 out of the 25 songs she had initially listed.  If I can pry myself out of bed early (or even on time) tomorrow, I should be able to finish up burning her CD before work.  Otherwise, I'll do it on my lunch break.

Watched a cool blurb tonight on the making of acoustic guitars.  I've always wanted to make one myself, but watching that TV show, it makes me think it'll be pretty darn tough.

I'd really love to have tomorrow night free to do some playing, but right now it just feels like that will have to be pushed off until Wednesday afternoon when I'm off.  Things at work have been busy and stressful of late, and it's overflowing into my music-life and my home life.  Work needs to knock it the hell off and just be normal.  Or at least find a way to be kinder to my life (both musical and otherwise).

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