So Grainne
What's the weather like where you are?
It's cold and rainy here- but the air smelled wonderful this morning. I could smell Jasmine on the breeze this morning when I took my daughter to school. Jasmine grows well here.
Any plans for the weekend? My oldest is playing in the solo ensemble festival, so that will eat up tomorrow day, and we're going out tonight and tomorrow with friends. It will be busy weekend, but a fun one, I hope. There is an exhibition at the Asian Art Museum we want to go to, but this will not be the weekend we get there.
Maybe next weekend.
I came to school early to write up my emergency sub plans (we all have to have two weeks of plans on file, in case we get hit by a bus). It took me less time then I expected, and now I am here in the freezing staff room typing on this keyboard that has VERY stiff keys. Actually, this reminds me of my piano teacher's grand piano. She has the hardest action on her piano I have ever encountered in all my life. I practice and practice at home, get the dynamics just right, and then when I try to play it for my teacher, the softer portions of the music don't play at all on her piano- and EVERYTHING sounds pianissimo, unless you pound the damn thing. Her mother bought the piano on the theory that is you practiced on a really hard piano you could play anything. Her mother soon abandoned that theory, bought a Steinway, and gave her daughter (my teacher) the crappy piano. |
