Illness, music exams and minimalism

Hello!

This blog post should address a few of my current gripes, so I'll get started. :)

First things first: I wish I didn't have this 'flu! It's been going on for several days now, and I've considered ringing up the doctor and getting antibiotics via a telephone consultation multiple times. However, as it seems to be abating I think I'm going to just sit it out for now. It's been a completely miserable term though as far as illness is concerned.

Second: my latest music exam plans! This blog is really a good opportunity for me to get some important thoughts down about where I'm headed with these.

My current schedule is:
This time next year: LTCL
At some point in my undergraduate career (though I'm willing to wait until postgrad for this): CertRCO

Whereas the CertRCO will be more useful, the LTCL is in my opinion infinitely more achievable from where I stand now. I have a programme lined up for the LTCL (Bach Sonata in A minor, Mozart Concerto in D, Martinu Sonata), and intend to just practice like crazy and find a good accompanist. We'll see how that goes. As for the CertRCO, my organ technique is, well, non-existant at the minute and I need to improve my sight-reading (but not by much!) to be really prepared for the Cert exam. Who knows, maybe the organ teacher I've booked in with will persuade me to take ARCO instead (and maybe that is indeed a better goal, or perhaps CertRCO is a good preparatory step to ARCO).

Third: minimalism. I am using the HTML option for blog editing because it seems a little less GUI-heavy, but I do wish there was a terminal version of Blogger I could use (if anyone knows one, please comment!). As you've probably guessed, I use terminals for everything (IRC, IM, Twitter, Google Reader), and a terminal Blogger would be awesome.

Right, that's me done for now. Should do a post on extentialism at some point...

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