Just call me Chief Inspector Dreyfus.

I have developed an eyelid twitch. It is, apparently, stress-related (at first I thought it was allergies, but as it comes and goes at odd times - and it stopped as I was leaving campus yesterday to go to the piano lesson - I'm concluding it's stress). Ugh. I hate having junk like that happen that I can't control. (I hate it too when I "run out of cope" and start to cry over some stupid little thing that normally wouldn't bug me).

I just hope no one calls me today needing something I can't give them.

If I weren't so touch-averse I'd look into going for a massage somewhere. But I might find that even more stressful, I don't know. I'm pretty touch-averse.

Two more days. Two more days.

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I had the last piano lesson of this semester yesterday. I don't start up again for three weeks. (I will be gone one of those weeks). I do think I'm going to keep practicing - maybe not as long or as much, but I am going to keep it up. Work on scales and triads and inversions, I think, because I like those. (Yes, I LIKE doing scales. When I'd get frustrated because I kept messing up a piece I'd take a break and play scales for a while to get my head back in the right place).

I also think I'll continue playing "Ecossaise in G" (despite the fact that it broke my heart at the recital) and get back to working on "Minuet in G." I could play it halfway decently (well, for a beginner) before I heard an expert play it and kind of lost my mojo for it. But if I can block that out of my mind and remind myself that *I* am playing it with *five months* of experience, maybe I can be happier about it. And maybe try "The Merry Farmer" or whatever that little Schumann piece is called. (I have the sheet music for it in one of my books, I took a stab at it months ago but didn't really have time to work on it).

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I'm liking how the "Weasley Homestead" socks are turning out. The yarn sort-of stripes, so there won't be any weird-bad pooling. This is definitely a take-it-on-vacation project. (I'll post a photo, maybe tomorrow, if I get farther on it)

I'm also thinking of taking the Hansigurumi book and my earthworm yarn (yes, I tracked down - from the Loopy Ewe in St. Louis, which may be a new favorite place to order from - the two colors of yarn needed for the worm). And yarn for the Nessie, which I already have in my stash. And maybe the crochet dolphin pattern and the yarn for that. I feel a need to make a bunch of toys. (I have enough yarn, if I'm reading the pattern right, for four or five earthworms - so I may make up a bunch and keep one for myself but save a few for funny gifts for people.)