I'm icing my arm tonight. I think I pinched a nerve somehow--anyhow it makes it very difficult to play, rather like intense muscle fatigue running down my arm and into my fingers, and it's aggravated when my arm is bent. AND I have my violin jury tomorrow. Isn't that peachy? At least I'll have an excuse for playing badly!

On a random note, I was practicing today, and I took a break to fool around on the piano (there's one in every practice room). I played through a part of Beethoven's Pathetique Sonata, making various fumbles along the way, which--in my defense--are perfectly natural considering that I haven't seriously practiced it in 4 years. As soon as I finished, someone in the next room played it twice as fast and perfectly. Huh. Show-off.

The religion of Evolution is feeling threatened, and with good cause! Read my earlier post about evolution and find out what even the scientists say when the public isn't listening.