So I overslept.  Woke at 729 with my elder cat Cordelia nudgiing me. She knew I was supposed to be up earlier.

I was mad at myself at first but calmed down and was able to start just at 8.  That all-or-nothing attitude – a learned response from childhood. One I have battled many times.

By letting go of feeling mad or guilty at oversleeping and I probably needed it – I was able to be productive. 

At work yesterday I had a meeting with my former manager about the year end bonus. Supposedly my new manager will be meeting with me today to discuss goals etc. .   It should be interesting.  The firm holiday party is tonight. I probably won’t go. if I have to work til 730 and then go to the party, it will be really late by the time I would get home and there is a prediction of snow tonight. Also the transit stirke may be happening at midnight. If I am gooing to stay out late it will be for a musical event.

I am so behind in my christmas preparations. I need to find the yarn for my nephew’s sweaters which means I really need to organize the basement. I may have to take a day off to deal wirh that.

Anyway.   Many things to do.

Practice report:  skipped my longer warmup with a a couple of exercises and one scale. Then learned the next 2.5 lines of the fuge section of the Sinfonia  Its mainly develpment section between the first restatement of the theme in the right hand – it repeats oin the left hand twice affter the initial statement. Then there is a passage devloping one of the motifs of the theme jumping mainly in the bass with the treble mainly scale patterns.   Then the themn reappears in the treble but that’s where I stopped ansd then reviewed from the beginning of the section and the from the second section.   Bit by bit.

Worked quite a bit on last embellisment in the nocturne. It has a trill with a leap two octaves to the far end of the keyboard and then a very typical chopin patterned descending scale pasaage to rejoin the melody. Its one of those 20 to 6 notes passage. Its coming but I hear it faster than I can play it right now so am consciously slowing it to make sure I don’t build in wrong notes.   The middle section is starting to flow much more freely.

Opps here is my train stop.