Julia,

You delight me. "180 weird or just weird weird" made me laugh so hard out loud. It means SO MUCH to me that you keep throwing ideas at me. There are times when I am like a volcano of ideas spewing them forth and writing them down. Other times (like now) I am just scratching my head wondering... is this "working"? so your input is SO helpful. thank you your excitement about my sitch too. I got SO excited and happy and I love having your excitement too, to back me up!!

It wouldn't be a 180 from "before" for me to discuss my deepest hopes-dreams-fears with him, but I haven't done more than mention them lightheartedly in passing since the bomb, so it would be a post-bomb 180.

I am thinking that the pic & recording might just be "weird weird"... if I had been REALLY ORGANIZED I would have made a foxy poster for my recital and then forwarded it to him (maybe in a "fake mass email" that was really just for him) but I totally ran out of time on that one. Not sure how to do that now... thoughts?? My brain CPU is being consumed by studying for my comprehensive oral exam tomorrow morning.

Right now I am just going to put my head down and power through the next few days to pass my comp tomorrow morning and also try to pass my piano proficiency on monday.

Though I did have an idea in the shower... that I could call B and interview him about his experience of performing the de falla and franck. It actually would be extremely helpful to get his perspective and I could include it in my presenatations tomorrow. I could even go as far as to ask him to scan the violin part into his computer and email it to me but that might be too much pressure.

What do you think, guys?

I might be pulling an all nighter anyway... (nervous laughter) (WILD CACKLING LAUGHTER)

after all this school cr@P is over (or at least I get a little breather)... maybe over thanksgiving break (next week) I can call and try to start setting things in motion for a december rendezvous

LOVE,
T