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Hello,
What a week outside of my life. I want to say right off the bat that my thoughts and sympathies go out to the injured and the families of those killed at Ft. Hood. Also, very recent news, health care reform just passed in the House, so I'll be keeping my eye on that. Excitement abounding from that three ringed circus.

I've been writing up a storm, but my storm is an F1 tornado when it needs to be F5. (See... analogies. That's why I'm a writer.) I'm almost six thousand words behind and did not even write anything today. However, I've been writing and have written 6,000 words in one week, which in and of itself is impressive for me (and lots of other people, I suspect.) I'm proud of myself, and though it looks like I won't be a winner this year, am still enjoying myself and getting a lot out of this experience. I'll keep going and try to make up ground, but really, simply writing everyday and working without going back to second-guess myself has been a reward in and of itself. We'll see how far I am by December 1st!

After two weeks of being sick with bronchitis, (thank you to everyone who sent me well wishes) I felt so much better this week and got to go back to my life. I had a wonderful cello lesson Monday, went to the park a few times, saw friends, went to a wonderful concert Thursday (I'll get back to that), and went to orchestra yesterday.

Orchestra was really great, we got all our Christmas music. I had a fun practice with the quartet, we picked out our Federation piece (yay!). Theory was lots of fun and we had a new student join us, so that was nice. I got to conduct the orchestra on a rhythm exercise, which I kind of botched because I did not clap (my bad) so we moved on to doing scales while we waited for Mrs. L. It was awful funny to hear students begging to do scales. lol! It was just a really great day.

On Thursday I went to see Quattrocelli, they are four cellists from Germany. It was a fun concert and they had some great arrangments. They played almost all songs from movies. Go check them out, they're a neat act.

I have put up a word count widget, so if you care to you can check that out. Also, I updated the Coming Soon books.

Later,
~Em~

P.S. Wouldn't life be more interesting if my title was a real headline?