Dear internet, this is my break from reading about teaching.

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One of two things is happening. Either (a) there is WAY too much reading being assigned, or (b) there are not enough hours in the day for me to do the reading (and sometimes the associated busywork), AND practise AND live my life. I already know there aren't enough hours in the day to be in all the classes I'm in, since I have a 1-hour overlap with orchestra and one of my ed. classes on Tuesdays.

HOORAY!

p.s. why do I think it's the most adorable thing ever when the kitties carry things in their mouths? Ducky caught a ball of crumpled paper and he's prancing around with it. Eeeeee! <3

p.p.s. things I am currently practising:
-orchestra music (Mahler 5, Banfield 'Essay for Orshestra')
-wind ensemble music (including but not limited to West Side Story, Berlioz' Hungarian March, Gilbert & Sullivan 'Pineapple Poll')
-contemporary chamber music (short jazzy bassoon-bass duo (West Coast Premiere! occasionally a finger-twister but not superhard), terrifyingly hard viola-bassoon-piano trio (omg, multiphonics and fluttertonguing and 7/16), endurance- and concentration-testing Philip Glass (Music in Similar Motion, y'all! which I like but talk about your repetitive stress injuries))
-excerpts (Shostakovich 9, Tchaikovsky 4, Nozze di Figaro (:C), Sacre du Printemps, Bolero, and perhaps more to come as I figure out for sure what schools I am applying to and exactly what they want)
-Bach Cello Suite No. 2 in D minor: Prelude
-Saint-Saëns Sonata
-Osborne Rhapsody
-etudes (1 Milde concert etude, TBA; 1 Milde scale etude in a different key, also TBA)
-O BTW MOZART CONCERTO STILL HAHA
-scales (they're soothing. and they build character.)

FREE TIEM? WHAT IS THIS OF WHICH YOU SPEAK?

And now back to your regularly-scheduled programming my reading for class tomorrow night: Deculturalization and the Struggle for Equality: A Brief History of the Education of Dominated Cultures in the United States, by Joel Spring. Aaaaarg it is a 150 page book, which is why they gave it all at once, but I am only on page 17 because the only reading that goes quickly for me is fiction. WHY CAN'T WE READ LOTR FOR MY CLASSES? I WOULD BE ALL OVER THAT SHIT. also i have been meaning to re-read those, because i haven't for several years. boo.

p.p.p.s. i wore my enterprise-inna-bottle shirt today and 3 people said it was awesome. win!