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« Reply #330 on: 16:25:43, 27-04-2007 » |
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(Millie age 6)
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« Reply #331 on: 16:46:11, 27-04-2007 » |
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We pass this way but once. This is not a rehearsal!
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« Reply #332 on: 16:55:11, 27-04-2007 » |
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Good stuff Milly, keep 'em coming!!!!!
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« Reply #333 on: 20:14:00, 27-04-2007 » |
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Good evening everyone. I am backhome and I am grumpy, but the grumpy room is occupied.
So I decided to have my grump here. Here it goes:
am so grumpy today I am ready to cry. I just got back from something that was supposed to be lasting at the most 3 hours of my time. I left at 10 in the morning and I am only back now.
The accompanist who was going to accompany the girl for leaving certificate backed out saying last night that his partner is ill and has to be taken to the hospital. What kind of a sickness is it? He is 30 years old and the illness doesn't sound life threatening.
I lost on the way in and on the way back. I could not call my student that I am not going to make it back (who could of think that I will not be back at 4). The examiner was delayed and I only got free at 5.
The last student had to wait for me to come and I was so angry that I could hardly teach.
1. My day was ruined 2. I missed a student that has an exam on May 5th 3. I am tired.
What do I have in return 1. 100 euro 2. they are thankful for me to come at a short notice
I am so tired of being taken advantage of. I do have my plans and my commitments. I do want to help, but these kind of things happen to me so often.
I am not happy with myself.
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« Reply #334 on: 20:15:42, 27-04-2007 » |
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And on top of everything else I just found out that Rostropovich had died.
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« Reply #335 on: 20:30:47, 27-04-2007 » |
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t-p,
grief and grumpiness should not be confused.
Hopefully the grumpy room should have cleared now, as I have asked Milly and time to continue their debate by personal message. Whether they do so is, of course, not a certainty - but I don't think that should stop you posting what you like there.
All the same, it does seem like you have had a truly grumpy day - don't let people take advantage of you, but do try and help out. It's a difficult balance. I hope you managed to do something productive whilst your plans were being ripped up by other people's incompetence.....
All the best
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« Reply #336 on: 20:36:19, 27-04-2007 » |
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Sorry, t-p, I didn't mean to keep you out of the grumpy room. I do hope though that Tommo appreciates that sometimes you need to stand up for what you believe in public, especially if the comment you objected to in the first place was made in public. I don't think there's much point to keep arguing with Milly now, but I think I'm allowed my space to grump too, and the grumpy room did seem like an appropriate place ... <peace> (is there one of those dove smileys around here?) |
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #337 on: 20:45:04, 27-04-2007 » |
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I do hope though that Tommo appreciates that sometimes you need to stand up for what you believe in public, especially if the comment you objected to in the first place was made in public. Oh indeed - and I believe you made your case against the injustice very well. It's just that the discusion had started to get merged with personal opinions and wasn't really being particularly productive.... That's my opinion, of course And if we ever get in this sort of situation again, and you disagree with a request to move to PMs, please say so.... Tommo |
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« Reply #338 on: 20:47:06, 27-04-2007 » |
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I am not happy with myself.
t-p Try the piano thread which may cheer you up and also give you a chance to help too. |
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« Reply #339 on: 20:48:01, 27-04-2007 » |
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For what it's worth, I offer my sympathy T-P. Sometimes the willing horse is a little too willing. Take some time to smell the roses.  |
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« Reply #340 on: 20:48:42, 27-04-2007 » |
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I am not happy with myself.
t-p Try the piano thread which may cheer you up and also give you a chance to help too. I would like to put the modest request in that in such a thread we can talk about other things as well as smashing pianos to bits! |
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« Reply #341 on: 20:52:58, 27-04-2007 » |
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I sympathised with you, time_is_now, and think you made good and necessary points.
t-p - you've had a wretched day indeed. You will feel better when you are less tired. Have a good rest and watch some relaxingly rubbishy television or something (unless that would make you more grumpy).
I was so shocked when I heard Rostropovich had died, although I did know he was ill, but he was one of those people, like Menuhin, who was so much part of the tapestry of musical life that I sort of expected him to be there for ever - which he is in a way, of course.
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« Reply #342 on: 20:57:39, 27-04-2007 » |
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hank you Kitty. It makes me feel a little better.
Thank you so much. I appreciate your sympathy. I feel so lonely. I am often in this kind of situations.
Thank you Mary, it makes me feel so much better. I don't know how to thank you enough.
I am resting my wrists now and decided not to practice for a while. I am tired.
Ian, I am not good in contemporary repertoire. I don't have students that are so good as to go to any competitions. I am on the very bottom of everything.
I will try to think.
There are people like Rostropovich that I thought will always be around. That teaches one to appreciate them when they (great people) are around.
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« Reply #343 on: 20:59:29, 27-04-2007 » |
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Sorry it's been such a crap day for you, t-p. You need something to do to take your mind off such things altogether - how about reading some of the Story of the Eye (or maybe you've already done so)? |
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« Reply #344 on: 21:21:08, 27-04-2007 » |
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t-p, take a walk in your mind round a place that makes you happy. Put on some music that transports you: don't get cross with yourself; it's happened, it's gone and that's it.
Treat yourself to chocolate/wine/hugs or whatever else you need to boost your ego!
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