Friday 16th of July, 2004
There are also croutons.
Up and Sit, then Breakfast, then practise. After a few days of Maisying (which ate up all my time); it's very nice to get back to practising, which has a lot going for it. I'm sure this has been mentioned before.
At 11:30 I begin Lunch with Sylvain - vegetable soup. One might not think that one could apply complex strategies to vegetable soup (at least if one were generally ignorant of it, like me); but I do so and the strategies seem to work. Mainly this involves not just dumping the vegetables in the pan and then dumping water on top and adding stock cubes, but something more involved. There are also croutons.
After completing lunch I have a shower and prepare myself for the dentist, to which Ruth then takes me. Today it's teeth-cleaning lessons, but in German, with Ruth translating, also lessons in the arcane ways of the interdental brush. In the car on the way back, Ruth fills me on the many details I missed.
We're back in time for tea.
Between tea and five thirty there's the thrumming of Leagueness next door, and then a house meeting with the Director, with whom I have a personal meeting just before Dinner.
During Dinner, the Director tells of the Invented Level One. And the dessert is very good, too.
At 9:00 there's a meeting with guitars with Mart?n, running thorugh the repertoire we know. For my part this is very little, but it's fascinating to watch at close hand. As it were. This goes on until about midnight. In the break I show Ignacio the some of the pictures from Mendoza and the pictures from Pl?n, with which I should do something soon.
I use my new teeth-cleaning techniques, which take a very long time, or at least longer than I'm used to. I also wield the interdental brush mercilessly.
Bed at 00:45.
