Restless!

Oh, how restless am I! I've been waking up exhausted for the past three days and simply willing myself to get up. Obnoxious. Waiting to hear back about employment opportunities is most exhausting. Perhaps I'll go to the mall tomorrow (which mall is the question since I am in New Jersey and live within 30 minutes of 4 malls) and see what's up.

I taught my nine year old today, and it was surprisingly satisfying! I thought she'd be really bored by technical exercises but she loved them. The best part was that she made up her own exercises based on what I was doing. Since this stage of her music-making life is all about the creative experience and learning to express herself I went with it. We need to work on matching pitch more consistently. She's pretty consistent up until about a G above middle C, but anything above that is a little worrisome. I am sure that'll come with breath. She also really liked the little bit of piano lessons that we did. Overall, this is a great learning experience for me because you really need to explain things well to young children or they will call you out on it. :-)

I also began Lermontov's A Hero For Our Time, and I am quite enjoying it. I hope to finish it tomorrow, and then I will move away from Russian literature and try to read Jude the Obscure (Hardy) for the fourth summer in a row.

And now, in a separate post, I will muse on Renata Scotto's acting.