I HAVE HAD SUCH A GOOD WEEK!!!! I have managed to stay in a fairly normal, stable good mood all week. And I got 2 new CDs, (Schubert's Unfinished and Great Symphonies and the Mozart Clarinet Concerto) and some Lego and a hand-wound music box which is SO AWESOMELY cool and I went to the library three times and bought some bath and shower gel (grape-scented) and two of my friends want to have dinner/coffee with me within the next month and my friend who I thought wasn't going to be at the Conservatorium next year is going to be there doing her Masters and I have money in my bank account for the first time in AAAAGES and it has been SUCH A FRIGGING GOOD WEEK!!!
--- Breathing is important! If you don't breathe, your sound will deteriorate, your phrasing will suffer, and you will die.
--- The difference between an amateur and a professional: the amateur practises until it's right; the professional practises until it never goes wrong.