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Apr. 16th, 2007 12:45 pmI've decided I am going to spend two weeks of the summer at The Utopia Experiment in Scotland. I've sent Dylan an e-mail to say so.
Not sure how I'm going to afford it yet but I will think of something. It's not as if I have many students around that late into the summer anyway, so I'm not going to be missing out significantly on teaching income...
Now some links:
CAnada drops licences and adopts free model for map data. Go Canadia go!
Camberwell Squat Centre.
Marginal Revolution blog.
I am in Enfield at the Source of the Nile. There is a Roomba here. I think it is full, it is singing a sad song, but I'm not sure how to empty it, so I'm going to be horribly neglectful and not bother. The floors are much shinier and cleaner than they've been for a while.
Need to do planning for the week. Considering a "come do work in ewt's garden and get fed" party on Saturday - I know it's short notice, but yell if you're interested.
Good to be back to teaching. Many of my students actually practised over the break without being nagged by their parents. This is phenomenal, in part because I am only now, as an adult, getting to the point where I practise willingly and effectively rather than putting it off and off and off. I'm not quite at 'consistently' yet. Anyway, yeah, go my students. I'll be putting at least three in for exams in the autumn; I have mixed expectations of the outcome but I know they will all work hard and I know they will all learn and progress and that, my friends is magical. Absolutely without any doubt magical. Also, even the ones who didn't practise had good reasons - they were away in places with no piano - and they didn't really forget anything. Just... wow. Not all of my students are easy to teach, by any means, but I don't have any who don't try. I feel incredibly lucky about this - it certainly hasn't always been the case.
Saturday I failed at navigation and organisation multiple times and ended up doing far more walking than I have for a while; some of it was whilst carrying STUFF, too. Then yesterday was more walking around, for the teaching. I'm getting better at walking around and I'm walking a little faster than before too. This makes me happy.
I have some really wonderful friends.
Not sure how I'm going to afford it yet but I will think of something. It's not as if I have many students around that late into the summer anyway, so I'm not going to be missing out significantly on teaching income...
Now some links:
CAnada drops licences and adopts free model for map data. Go Canadia go!
Camberwell Squat Centre.
Marginal Revolution blog.
I am in Enfield at the Source of the Nile. There is a Roomba here. I think it is full, it is singing a sad song, but I'm not sure how to empty it, so I'm going to be horribly neglectful and not bother. The floors are much shinier and cleaner than they've been for a while.
Need to do planning for the week. Considering a "come do work in ewt's garden and get fed" party on Saturday - I know it's short notice, but yell if you're interested.
Good to be back to teaching. Many of my students actually practised over the break without being nagged by their parents. This is phenomenal, in part because I am only now, as an adult, getting to the point where I practise willingly and effectively rather than putting it off and off and off. I'm not quite at 'consistently' yet. Anyway, yeah, go my students. I'll be putting at least three in for exams in the autumn; I have mixed expectations of the outcome but I know they will all work hard and I know they will all learn and progress and that, my friends is magical. Absolutely without any doubt magical. Also, even the ones who didn't practise had good reasons - they were away in places with no piano - and they didn't really forget anything. Just... wow. Not all of my students are easy to teach, by any means, but I don't have any who don't try. I feel incredibly lucky about this - it certainly hasn't always been the case.
Saturday I failed at navigation and organisation multiple times and ended up doing far more walking than I have for a while; some of it was whilst carrying STUFF, too. Then yesterday was more walking around, for the teaching. I'm getting better at walking around and I'm walking a little faster than before too. This makes me happy.
I have some really wonderful friends.
