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My battery on my laptop is about to die, so I'll have to make this quick. Feeling a little better than yesterday. I'm sitting behind a freshman....a very nice, very good freshman....but a freshman. The flute section got bitched out, and it wasn't a fun thing, I didn't like the piece I was playing for lessons, and I was a little depressed and sleep deprived--read I'm not sure exactly where I fit in at this place musically. I had to rewrite my pedagogy paper on assembling the flute.....you'd think I knew how to do that by now. Evidently not. So there's that, and there's the fact that for the first time I just feel dumb around these people. Everyone sounds like they know what they're talking about, and I'm not sure if I do. Maybe I sound like that, but I think not. I'm doing my world music research topic on Gypsy music, namel probably women's roles in Romani music, or instrumental gender roles associated with the culture. I know very little about the Romani, but I've checked out every relevant book that the library owns. I have about 10 research books for my background info before I can go anywhere with the actual detail part of the research. Hopefully I'll eventually feel like a decent musician, and like someone who can string together a coherent thought every now and then. Off to read more about gypsies......