I woke up nice and early this morning but forced myself to stay in bed until 5:15. Then I got up and had a good walk and a good work-out, including stretches on the way back.
I taught 8 units of Berlitz lessons today: 9:00-10:30, 10:30-12:00, 12:00-1:30, and 5:30-7:00. This 1st and 3rd sessions were with the same student, so he had a LOT of English time today. The last lesson was with a group of students in Norway, all but ONE of whom are originally from Venezuela.
We ate lunch today at Buddha Burgers. I had their gluten-free vegan burger (which I hadn't yet tried), and David had their vegan roast beef burrito. We split a piece of vegan cheese cake and also each had a cookie for dessert. We're actually vegetarian, not vegan, but we certainly like the delicious vegan food they have there!
I started working on my next project today. We are limited to the Dorian mode on D for this one, and it also needs to be 30 seconds long. Furthermore, they even specified the tempo (240 BPM), which is rather fast. I think I've found a great solution, though. I'm going to do a setting of an old French noel that is in Dorian mode and sounds fine at this speed. Of course, I'll add some other stuff to it to make it interesting and also to fulfill some other requirements for the project.
The weather today was absolutely perfect! I had most of the windows open until 7:00 this evening, and it was not cold in here at all. I shut them then just to keep it from becoming too cold during the night, but I'm still sitting here at nearly 8:00 p.m. with my shirt off and feeling quite comfortable.
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