no excuses
Today is Monday. Which is to say, tomorrow is Tuesday. Fiddle class day.
Have I practiced? No. Why? Well.....
These are not excuses, but reasons.
1) I likely have a rotator cuff injury in the left shoulder, which makes it painful to hold the fiddle up.
2) I likely have some nerve damage along the left ribs, from an old repetitive-strain injury and radiation treatments, which make it painful to hold the fiddle up. Painful as in stabbing muscle spasms along the ribs.
3) After an hour of practice on Tuesday afternoons and 2 hours of class on Tuesday nights, I'm in pain. Substantial pain. And I don't have this pain if I don't hold the goddamned fiddle.
Reading this, I realize that if I didn't practice on Tuesdays but instead played a few minutes each day, like the teacher said, I'd probably be fine.
So, should I practice tomorrow or not?
I'll let you know what I decide.
9 Comments:
is it still fun for you?
and more importantly, did you see the cubist martini set in the Red Envelope catalog (or online?) and if so, what did you think???
What Rebecca said. The part about fun, not about martinis. Although martinis are, as a general rule, fun.
It's still fun, and those martini glasses look pretty damned cool!
only for a couple of minutes.
sorry about the f*cfiddle pain.
as a life long musician, i can attest for a few minutes of practice a day over waiting and trying to cram it all in before class.
With all that going on, how about just listen to the fiddle instead?
of course you should, silly.
Ha! You're going to let the fiddle win?
hey C! email me please
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