That always feels good. Especially when it’s stuff that’s actually going to bring in some money someday. Woot!

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I think actually finding the Satie score I needed at Chappell of Bond Street in Wardour Street (huh? yes, made me do a doubletake too) went to my head and I went a bit crazy in HMV afterwards when I found out they had a sale on, with the result that I brought home Philip Glass’s opera Einstein on the Beach, Haydn’s Paris Symphonies performed by Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Concentus Musicus Wien (which I’ve wanted to hear for ages) and the complete piano music of Schubert performed by Mitsuko Uchida, which took me rather by surprise as I’ve been a Schu-disliker, not distinguishing between -mann and -bert in this but which for some reason caught my eye and I’ve been really really enjoying it. Well, it seems miracles do happen. Maybe one day I’ll even find I unreservedly enjoy Mahler too. *snort*

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Yes! I did nothing particularly useful at all. Just slobbed about with my boy and did a little knitting. Can’t remember the last time I did that.

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Practicing the syntax I’d learnt reading my book on the train. Seems to work

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for my secret project. ER, for those who don’t know is “entity relationship”, so I am told, and is the first step in working out how to build the database I need. Exciting stuff!

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… only for our conductor to do his shoulder in, poor chap, and no audition to happen at all. Good rehearsal with the stand-in conductor though (he’s the tenor soloist for the concert)

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A nice relaxing early afternoon before catching my train. Bought an absolutely delicious chicken & asparagus pie for the trip home too, with absolutely the best mushy peas I have ever had. YUM. I may just be a mushy-pea convert after that.

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Djelibeybi and I spent an enjoyable afternoon wandering the streets of Shrewsbury before going off to the movies to see How to Lose Friends and Alienate People (verdict: light-hearted, fun, but the first half was all about agonising uncomfortableness to the point I almost couldn’t stand it, but the second half was good. Not likely to win awards, but fun).

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Almost like having a day off! The sun is shining outside, the birds are going tweet, I have Vivaldi choral music playing on my laptop and porridge and coffee to sustain me. Things are pretty good, really!

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For the project application my friend and I are putting in for the secret project, and also for an artist residency we’re applying for… in Bulgaria!!!

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