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OK. Try this link. I went to acrobat.com and had to click on "publish". This is my first scan using my new printer/scanner and for some reason I was not able to upload the scan to the web host I usually use, but it would upload to acrobat.

I especially like the words "fortea" and "pino"...chuckling over all the correct letters there, but the "a" jumped over to "forte".

Do you ever feel like you have about a dozen projects you want to get started on at once... and can't seem to start any of them? LOL.

I guess I ought to be working on my NCTM profile project this week. It is due in September (I needed an extension -- how sad is that?) and every time I sit down to work on it, I get all these other teaching ideas and can't sit still!

Spending most of the break in my studio, despite it being... my break! But I get the piano all to myself, so there. :P

Okay -- here is one of my ideas just in general. House concerts are getting to be so popular again (they really never went out of style, I suppose, just getting more media perhaps?). So I'd like to find a way to organize them in my city. Find a bunch of hosts and find interested musicians -- soloists and chamber groups, various instrumentation... I'd have to stick with "classical" for now, since those are the performers I know who might be interested.

Anyone here either host or perform house concerts? I played one for my parents in 2008... wish I had had more time to prepare for it, but the audience had a lot of fun. It was a birthday gift for my dad, who turned 60 that year.

That's called A.D.D.

Sorry about that, Ann. Didn't mean to kill your thread!

Presently, I am refereeing my kids and this neighbor child while they play upstairs. Ready to send the neighbor home now.

Do you ever feel like you have about a dozen projects you want to get started on at once... and can't seem to start any of them? LOL.

I guess I ought to be working on my NCTM profile project this week. It is due in September (I needed an extension -- how sad is that?) and every time I sit down to work on it, I get all these other teaching ideas and can't sit still!

I dream about the day a student gives me a coach bag! Regift or not!

I anyone teaching this week? Our public schools run until Wednesday, but everyone is coming in unprepared (if they come at all!)

You too? I came home from my annual group performance class and told my husband I was not having any more. Out of 30 students maybe 3 performed well, maybe another 3 or 4 OK, the rest were awful. Did anyone practice? No wonder they are nervous. I saw one high school girls hands shaking. She was terrible. Another primer student was so shy she was almost sick, but did she ever consider practicing? Sooooo disappointing and embarassing to have such terrible performances. I'm considering theory work sessions next year instead of performance.