I am sick. I dislike this thoroughly. I wish I had something more interesting to tell you at this point, but my head hurts, I have a bit of a cough, and a possible sore on my tongue; all of which not as condusive (sp) to playing tuba, or the horn for that matter.
I can say that I am maintaining at least 3.5 of my 4 New Year's Resolutions. The organizing of my room and life is becoming ridiculous, but it might just be necessary. My left hand's nails at least are clipped not by teeth. Flossing, firming up gums, mouthwash, and a sensodyne toothbrush keep the "take better care of teeth" category running full strength. And an ab workout everyday is helping, at least my ego anyway.
Resolutions aside, practicing has been lackluster this week. I didn't practice Monday, Tuesday's shortlived exercise was awful, Wednesday was short but had glimpses of the god-tuba player from last week, especially at the Basketball Game, and yesterday was the best of the week, but still not the level that the week previous was.
Can I just take a moment and rant about my Basketball Team? This is the UConn Men's Team. Now, granted that it is a team comprised of all Sophomores and Freshman, so they are young, I can see why they acted the way they did on Wednesday. But when every shot you make, no matter how cool it looks in your head, does NOT go in, it usually means that you need to return to fundamental basketball. Every shot, every single shot, did not go in, until maybe the second half. It was ugly. The majority of the game was comprised of foul shots, making it longer than any game I have ever attended. If anything, they'll learn from this game...I hope.
Back to practicing. Thanks for reading.
Adam
