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Recital excitement

I've had a sore throat with no accompanying symptoms for the past few days now, and just today I was talking to myself while making dinner, when I heard that unmistakable squeak out of hearing range... this is the squeak of laryngitis. Which, I believe, I've actually caught as just laryngitis, and not developed it as the result of a bad cold. This means I'm sick enough to have this annoying throat thing and constantly pummel myself with liquids, but not sick enough to stay home from work. That's like... the most unbeneficial sick you can get.
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I've got a recital coming up three weeks from tomorrow - and I'm slowly starting to transition from trying frantically to be prepared to kind of getting excited and anxious about it. This is the first recital of its kind that I've given; I haven't had regular lessons or violin instruction during the course of learning the material - though most of the stuff I'm playing I've learned with a teacher before (mostly Ribeiro). I'll be traveling to give it, which makes it an official Guest Artist recital, but the place I'm going is Colorado - and I'm strangely looking forward to being in Greeley again. The context is different - the last time I was there, it was only a few months after I had graduated, and I was in a violently turbulent point in my music education. I was unsure of everything musically, and my confidence was stripped. On top of all this, Greeley ended up simply being a different town than I left it. It's the natural passage of college towns. And now, while I'm still unsure of plenty, I'm not unsure of EVERYTHING. My intonation is a problem that is now under control - instead of a raging incompetence like it was when I left UNC. I'm just looking forward to performing in an environment that has proved nothing but familiar and supportive in the past.
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And now, something I'd like to scream from the rooftops but am prevented from doing what with the laryngitis:
I LOVE TRADER JOOOOOOOES!!

They put together so much good stuff and for so cheap... I think making a detour on my way home from teaching and shopping there instead of the 2 mile drive to Safeway is still actually saving me money. And I'm eating just deliciously YUMMY stuff.

This Pacific Northwest is treating me real nice these days. Laryngitis aside.

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