days off about to disappear

in less than 2 hours my life will be given over to a 2 year old...

josiah's bringing her up now, i'll have her until tomorrow night when i'll be taking her down to brighton then hanging out a bit for a little social...

so my tuesday & wednesday space in the week is now completely full... and even though i wanted this, asked for it, just this element of it is slightly unsettling to me, i love having days off, of not knowing what i'm doing...

not that i know what i'm going to do with grace all the time she's here...

anyway, just a thought, i've been thinking about joseph schillinger and about how he was an inspirational teacher but after he died his techniques died too after a decade or so... these days there are a few people interested in him but it's recognised that the books he left behind aren't as good as they could be, not as good as having him there to answer your questions...

the w h matthieau book on music theory that i bought almost 12 months ago now and still haven't really got my teeth into addresses the question of having a real teacher against learning from their books... but just the fact that matthieau is addressing this bodes well for the quality of the book...

the long & the short of all this is that i can see myself writing a book in a decade or two... a distillation of the ways i have found to teach music... and i want it to be a good book.

i finished what i loved the other day, still haven't started another yet... toing with the idea of rereading the wind-up bird chronicles but haven't made up my mind yet, yesterday i enjoyed being bookless for once, i had several hours off in the middle of my day, just as the sun was nearing the horizon, drifted around by the thames and took pictures, video's, there was a lovely almost mist around things that turned into a real cold mist by the time i was cycling home in the dark...

wintery feeling to that journey,

when G got home last night we watched the first of the downloaded lost episodes, i've lost patience with the TV, going to download until the end of the series and then maybe on into series 2, it was great, so much better without adverts, longer somehow, (i dreamt that we discovered that the uncut episodes were an hour and twenty minutes, i was outraged)...

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