Violin!squee
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eponymous_roseFirst lesson was fantabulous today! Fortunately, instructor was smart enough to suggest we go for supper at the mall on campus beforehand so as to get all of the chattiness out of our systems.
And there was chattiness. Turns out he's a total new!Who fanboy (I recommended Four to him), a Whedon fan, veddy into Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams and all was good. He later lent me seven novels from his "library", with the promise of more to come once I'd finished these. (!!)
The lesson itself was excellent - turns out I taught myself all right using the internet. That is to say, I could hold the bow after only ten minutes of patient instruction. We screeched our way through the G scale, and he told me that since I have such an extensive musical background, he'll expect me to pick it up much faster. In fact, he assigned that I teach myself "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" in the key of G as homework - and work out the A scale. Apparently I have a good ear. *winces* This sounds like hard work. But fun!
I then displayed my piano skillz on the horribly out-of-tune piano and he somehow decided that I was an acceptable accompanist. Looks like I'll be playing at a big concert some time this winter. *shivers*
It looks like I'll be able to fudge my way through the tutoring-vector-algebra bit. Phew. (I very cleverly sold the textbook back last year and have no other material on the subject. Urgh.)
Summer = on track. The superstitious bit of me is waiting for the other shoe to drop. The not-so-suspicious bit of me is contemplating various ways to hit the superstitious bit of me with heavy objects.
Also: I finished the four months' worth of work my supervisor laid out for me. He's away until Monday. I guess I'll just keep prettifying the Excel spreadsheet. By the time he sees it, it'll be sparkling!
And there was chattiness. Turns out he's a total new!Who fanboy (I recommended Four to him), a Whedon fan, veddy into Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams and all was good. He later lent me seven novels from his "library", with the promise of more to come once I'd finished these. (!!)
The lesson itself was excellent - turns out I taught myself all right using the internet. That is to say, I could hold the bow after only ten minutes of patient instruction. We screeched our way through the G scale, and he told me that since I have such an extensive musical background, he'll expect me to pick it up much faster. In fact, he assigned that I teach myself "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" in the key of G as homework - and work out the A scale. Apparently I have a good ear. *winces* This sounds like hard work. But fun!
I then displayed my piano skillz on the horribly out-of-tune piano and he somehow decided that I was an acceptable accompanist. Looks like I'll be playing at a big concert some time this winter. *shivers*
It looks like I'll be able to fudge my way through the tutoring-vector-algebra bit. Phew. (I very cleverly sold the textbook back last year and have no other material on the subject. Urgh.)
Summer = on track. The superstitious bit of me is waiting for the other shoe to drop. The not-so-suspicious bit of me is contemplating various ways to hit the superstitious bit of me with heavy objects.
Also: I finished the four months' worth of work my supervisor laid out for me. He's away until Monday. I guess I'll just keep prettifying the Excel spreadsheet. By the time he sees it, it'll be sparkling!
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