Sonata in E Minor Op 7 - Edward Grieg

I have just begun learning the second movement of the above mentioned Sonata, by Grieg, who is one of my favourite composers. It's a slow movement, very lyrical and pretty, very intriguing. What I'd call night music.

I realize, if you really want to learn something properly, it takes so much effort, to meticulously work out the fingering, to be anal about which notes are to be held and the timing, and to resist the temptation of just playing on after you make a mistake... until the music flows. I spent one hour today playing about three lines, determined to make it decent before I move on. It still sucks though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfNXkOxa1vg&NR=1 - hear it here!

One big case presentation done today. One more project submission on Wednesday. I feel so tired.

Apparantly, today is the submission date for Honours Thesis. I saw a senior's thesis, bounded into a book- thick cover, very heavy. I shall be embarking on my own thesis horror in due course, and I cannot imagine ever producing anything worthy of it's own book cover and spine. 2000 word essays already leave me in so much pain and misery.

I have taken to indulging in massages. But I am ticklish and tend to flinch a lot, so the person who massages me has to do it very precisely, at a certain spot, with variations within a certain radius from my spine. Get it right and... mmmmmmmmmmm. I want to be massaged til I fall asleep! haha!