Hey kids! Pop quiz:

The correct way to play piano is to:
a) play seated
b) play standing

If you answered a) play seated, you get a sticker! \o/

I found out today that one of my youngsters has been playing her keyboard (or, as we like to say "pso - piano shaped object"!) standing! She just began to study with me in the fall and I know that I went over ( Read more... )

My friend was having a movie/tv themed Halloween Party last Saturday. I wore cargo pants and my black BDU top with the American flag and Atlantis patch. :D

On Halloween, I played my church job in the morning. It amuses me that a secular holiday such as Halloween fell on a Sunday this year. In the afternoon, I helped to pick up windfalls in the ( Read more... )

Got back from Seattle and the Van con on Tuesday afternoon and hit the ground running back to teaching and rehearsals. I have 3 concerts in the next week and a half. Two of them are choral concerts I'm singing in. The other is a choral concert in the park fundraiser I'm accompanying for. Then it slows down. I promise to up load video I have of the ( Read more... )

The phone rang and woke me up well before the alarm was set to go off. This made me cranky because 6 hours of sleep doesn't quite cut it for me. Then the sim card in my mobile phone crapped out. My phone was completely worthless; couldn't send or receive calls or texts.Then I was stuck on the phone for 45 minutes and all I wanted to do was have ( Read more... )

Still recovering from the weekend. Monster Concert took it out of me. ( But it was a great concert and we had great feedback from the woman who was with Jane Bastien, our featured composer this year. )

It's cloudy and cooler today. After getting back from my run (3+ miles in 35:50) and cooling off, I was cold and put on a sweater. I'm still cold. Yep, think Fall is here.

Watched Heroes last night. ( spoilery comments for last night's ep )

Tuesdays are my busiest teaching days with 7 students. 5 of them canceled today. One called on Sunday and rescheduled her lesson for yesterday. My 3pm flaked. My 4:30 called to reschedule for Thursday. My 6:30 called to say the little one came home ill from school and has been diagnosed with a mild strain of pneumonia. So that left 5:30 and 6 ( Read more... )

Running today: 3 miles in 36:14; south wind gusts gave me an extra workout on the last mile.

Got this in my email from one of the piano teacher lists I sub to.( I am both horrified and amused )

Hey everyone, thanks for all your good thoughts and finger crossings! :)

Mom's job interview was this morning. She felt pretty good about it. ( the details )

I was working with an elementary student in piano this week on a piece that uses scat singing called "Mr. McGill." ( what scat singing is )