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Monday, February 24, 2020

My productivity method...

... is to write down what I do. I have three categories: work, life, and music. The music spills a bit into the work category, etc... What this shows me is what I am and am not doing with some clarity.  

Feb. 17. 

            
            Worked on Chapter 2: up to page 13 [good progress]!
            Read some of Charles Rosen book Critical Entertainments
            Emails re BA program 
            other misc. emails re X’s promotion, etc… 
            Wrote 2 blog posts
            
            Ran dishwasher
            Noon meditation at zen center 
            Rolling prairie pick up / told them I wasn’t continuing 

            Worked on Autumn Leaves / Mozart     

Feb. 18 

            Wrote 3 blog posts
            Returned to Introduction to add material
            Read more of “Brain on Music” book
            Professional emails: thanked XXX for raise! 

            Noon meditation at Zen center 
            Called Apt complex re: lease and repair of light switch 

            Worked on Mozart / Autumn Leaves / Body and Soul
            Listened to own music starting with the “As” in artists. 


Feb. 19

            Revised intro! Looking good 
            Worked on Chapter 2 
            Class visit for BA program

            Laundry

            Listened to Morton Feldman Piano and String Quartet
            Worked on Body and Soul / Mozart
            Listened to recording of Mozart several times  

Feb. 20  

            
            Worked polishing intro! Good progress 
            Class visits for BA program
            Looked for AirbnB    / booked one!  

            Listened to Shostakovich prelude and fugue in C major, A minor, G Major, E minor 
            Worked on Mozart / Autumn leaves
            Read some of Mompou biography 


Feb. 21

            Class visit for BA program
            Wrote bog post
            Emailed Mari re BA program
            Listened to Poulenc “L’enfant cherchait sa voix…” 
            
            Signed Lease! 
            Bought stocks 

            Listened to rest of Disk 1 of Shostakovich
            Worked on Mozart / Autumn leaves / Mompou main gauche
            Piano lesson

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