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17th April 2002
Posted Apr 17, 2002
My clarinets have arrived back home! The repairer has done a truly splendid job.. the pads have been beautifully redone and centred, the corks are all perfect, the thumbrests have been changed, the keys are polished, and the wood's gleaming. The clarinets are incredibly smooth between all registers, and the tone they're producing is something to be beheld. They're also a week early back from the repairer! 
.. now I can get back to playing properly. And, I can restart my attempts to sell my third R13 clarinet. Titania. Any bidders? 
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15th April 2002
Posted Apr 15, 2002
Having spent the best part of 4 months working on a large extended piece of coursework, we were told today that - four weeks before the exam the coursework counts towards (and several weeks after students studying under a different teacher have finished their dissertations) our work will gain no marks at all. Why? because we've been taught the wrong stuff, and all of the guidance we've been given has been wrong. Yay.
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14th April 2002
Posted Apr 14, 2002
I'm with Lisa. I feel good.
If there's a kind deity in the world, let me send him or her this plea... please, please, please, let me spend as much of the rest of my life like this as possible. *gives lisa another 
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12th April 2002
Posted Apr 12, 2002
I appear to have badly pulled a muscle in my upper right arm. Since my arm wasn't like this the night before last, the most likely prognosis seems to be that I pulled it getting out of bed (since bed is 6 feet above the ground, and I tend to vault off it when I get up in a fairly haphazard manner)
This is unfortunate, because (and I've measured this) unless I hold my arm at precisely 95 degrees (which is extremely hard to do) with my upper arm in line with my body (only possible when lying down), my arm is /extremely painful/. Note extremely. I also can't extend my arm (the attempt to do this is even more painful) or move my arm quickly (this is more painful still. I accidentally did this three times whilst getting dressed). Suffice to say that, whilst asleep, it's not easy to keep your arm in a fixed position, and so I woke up a lot.
I also got my orthopaedic appointment card this morning, and the orthopaedic clinic have helpfully arranged for me to see them in July. When I'm in Germany. Thanks, guys. blargh. I feel like a perpetually ill thing. 
On the bright side, the weekend should be fun. (even if my arm's practically immobile. 
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7th April 2002
Posted Apr 7, 2002
I'm now £30 richer due to my marvellous french-conversation-teaching-skills. .. so there. I'm a teacher.
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