holidays: thoughts and happenings

the potential to do about 5-6hrs of piano practice a day, by doing a morning and an afternoon session, leaving my evenings free. it's worked a couple of times - other days i've been kinda slack...oops....but it is quite nice!

sleeping in till 8.30, shock horror!

taking stock of my life, again. this happens every so often.
often about my course - is this really what i want to be doing?

my mum re-ignited ideas about exchange. i'm hesistant about exchange next year because a) i don't know where i'd go [and before you all say "uh, duh! europe! music!", i do have to consider the commerce degree, where in europe, what university, what sort of programme etc. there are many things to think about! however ideal we'd like it all to be!] b) i feel, well, not necessarily tied down, but committed to commitments - eg. accompaniment roles ('associate artist'. whatever. you know who you are.), choir, chamber groups. just to name a few.

studying and enjoying muse 1-1. thanks for the recommendations guys :)

hanging out at the vic quite a lot. five times in one week, friday to friday, if i'm not mistaken!

going out for coffee/breakfast/dinner with friends. nice :)

trying to figure out course plans for the next two years. kinda hard because the 2008 handbook hasn't come out yet and i suppose some things will change because of the new generation degrees in the melbourne model.

cleaning my room in the afternoon. also known as throwing out a few things. then making new piles of stuff. that are all at 90-degree angles to other things.
and then subsequently turning my room upside down that night in search of something in particular.
only to not find it. but to find lots of other stuff, namely, lots of music! amounting to a pile about 25cm high, including some folders which are only partially full - so, lots of music plus files to clean out so i can use them!

finally cracking open a subject that isn't prac study nor chamber music! haha

techniques listening list.....getting there.....starting, i mean. haha

i should do my laundry.

spending enormous amounts of time on facebook.

wondering if i have to sit by myself at mealtimes because there is almost nobody left at college.

researching: contact lenses from the victorian college of optometry.

finding it very hard to find winter (our summer) programmes for music in europe. or internships - not really sure where to look. this, i suppose, was the latest thought before re-ignition of exchange ideas. perhaps i should google 'scholarhips' instead.....if anybody knows any programmes, let me know - i'd be interested to have a look!