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Originally Posted by beesknees
Well that's good! Sounds posh actually. My lil bro's dorm room at a private college sounds like that. DH and I went to visit him when he first moved in and we were quite jealous.
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These are AMAZING dorms! Quite posh in fact. The towels are tiny though. LOL!
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Hey howdy and welcome to the log of the ex-runner (but can't quite get it out of my system)
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Originally Posted by Bytsi
I dunno why this made me think of you...
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LOL! Girl that is sooooo funny. I often wondered about that actually with the guys. HA HA HA
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I'm very late to your log, but I can soooooo relate to you on that. Amen!
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Yesterday I logged 330 grams of protein. I was attacked by Sashimi
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So are you doing anything fun, like short sheeting anyone's bed?
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Nah.. Greg... this is actually a pretty serious event for us attendees. That said I am completely and totally at peace now. I am hanging with an amazing group of people who happen to also be pretty damned good musicians. I have no Intel work pressure anymore and no rental property pressure. I can just focus on my mission which is to perform tomorrow and have fun!
Today's master class was awesome!!! It is the day before the big performance and so we all had to perform alone in the big hall for each other. This is the day when everything goes wrong and that is a good thing becuase it puts pressure on us for tomorrow. The saying goes that "a bad dress rehearsal = a great performance". I had multiple things going on in my head when I was on the stage. For one thing I had broken a fingernail and so hitting the strings was somewhat an issue... But even more distracting was that I busted my ass over the past 2 days trying to bring that really hard piece up. I kept working and working and my buddies were all in empathy with my plight. Nobody could understand why the maestro would ask me to do such a diffulcult thing. I was already stressing about the original repertoire I had brought in.
Today as I sat on the stage and failed miserably at the new and hard piece he had assigned to me, he says, "So let's not play that one tomorrow night" "Let's go to the original plan instead" I was noticably happy and played the originals with ease after that. I asked him after class why he had made me go through that torture. He asked me how I felt about my repertoire now and I replied immediately that it was easy. It then hit me. I had NO STRESS whatesoever about these big pieces and putting them to performance for the first time. I smiled big then because that is EXACTLY why I pay this guy. He is one of the best teachers I have ever had for any subject in my life. I am lucky to have him in my life.
I got another mini-lift in the gym today. These college kids are soooo funny. They leave a loaded bb sitting on one of the stages (just 135lbs mind you) and they all just stop by and do deads. So I thought, he when in Rome.... I did deads with the big tire plates and some nice ATG squats and some db presses and some tricep pulls. All fun stuff and in a great gym. I avoided the running track today but might have to see it tomorrow for a little bit... We'll see...
Gonna read a few logs and then get to practicing... Tomorrow is the big day!