other stuff

[ewt]

-Phone the Jewish Aids Trust and see what they want and whether I can be bothered doing some work for them as a one-off. Plus: money without a huge commitment (probably). Minus: they're in Totteridge & Whetstone, and it's non-music work of a nature that I do not particularly enjoy. Neutral: maintaining good contacts (do I want to maintain contacts for a type of work I don't enjoy?). Finding out is maybe 15 minutes of research. The commute's a bugger though.

-Phone that Freecycle guy about the MD recorder; I'm meant to be recording myself when I practise horn, but I don't have the kit currently. MD recorder would be good because a) it's free b) it fits in my horn case c) I already have some MDs.

-Get organised to start theory classes for piano students after Pesach. Figure out where, how, how to sell it to the parents, which curriculum to use (why do none of them have enough exercises?), size limit on group (may be moot), how often (every 2 weeks gives me and the students more flexibility but they forget more in between), and so on. Write own curriculum if necessary. This is maybe 10 hours of work.

-Think about whether a laptop or better PDA (with limited intarweb) might be better for the getting-work-done-anywhere thing, which is more important than I might have previously imagined. Laptops have shit battery life, they're heavy and more likely to get stolen than I like, but they can be very, very useful. PDAs won't generally do music notation software, and the lack of keyboard is a serious drawback. If I'm going to actually use this stuff is it worth drawing £500 from the Canajan RESP to fund it? Pencil and paper is all well and good but seriously slower for some of the stuff I do. Fixing Bricklet is a fun project rather than something that will seriously meet any of my computing needs as far as getting academic work done is concerned. Hmm.